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Personality and Career: She's Got What It Takes
Fietze, Simon; Holst, Elke; Tobsch, Verena - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on gender differences in career chances. We compare managers and …-Economic Panel (SOEP) in 2005 show that there are significant gender differences in personality traits, multivariate estimations … clearly indicate that these differences cannot account for gender differences in career opportunities. Nevertheless …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596277
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Occupational Sex Segregation and Management-Level Wages in Germany: What Role Does Firm Size Play?
Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896172
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Interrelationships among Locus of Control and Years in Management and Unemployment: Differences by Gender
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
This paper focuses on gender differences in the role played by locus of control within a model that predicts outcomes … unemployment. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the extent to which gender differences occur in … the development of one particular aspect of personality, that is, locus of control. Overall gender differences were more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555900
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Intangibles, Can They Explain the Dispersion in Return Rates?
Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
It is argued that the observed return rates on capital at firm-level have an upward bias if firms are producing with unobserved intangible capital. Using EUKLEED, a comprehensive firm level data base for Germany, this theoretical preposition is proved empirically. Furthermore, making unobserved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530631
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Are Private Equity Investors Good or Evil?
Badunenko, Oleg; Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
The paper investigates the motives of activity (entry and exit) of Private Equity (PE) investors in European companies. Investment of a PE firm is not viewed unambiguously. First, it is claimed that PE investment is made for the sake of seeking short-term gains by taking control and utilizing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963859
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Does the Tenure of Private Equity Investment Improve the Performance of European Firms?
Badunenko, Oleg; Baum, Christopher F.; Schäfer, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
The paper investigates whether the presence and tenure of Private Equity (PE) investment in European companies improves their performance. Previous studies documented the unambiguous merit of a buyout during the 1980s and 1990s for listed firms in the US and UK markets. This study analyzes such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008541302
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Are Private Equity Investors Good or Evil?
Badunenko, Oleg; Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
The paper investigates the motives of activity (entry and exit) of Private Equity (PE) investors in European companies. Investment of a PE firm is not viewed unambiguously. First, it is claimed that PE investment is made for the sake of seeking shortterm gains by taking control and utilizing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069139
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What's Banking Sector Concentration Got to Do with Private Equity Market?
Badunenko, Oleg; Deva, Saloni; Schäfer, Dorothea; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
The paper investigates the link between bank concentration and a country's buyout market. We perform a macro level analysis for 15 European countries during 1997-2007. We estimate the elasticity of the country i's buyout market to country i's concentration in the banking sector. Our major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661263
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Private Equity, Corporate Governance and Out-Performance of High-Growth Firms
Badunenko, Oleg; Karber, Moritz Fabien; Schäfer, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
The paper investigates how Private Equity (PE) ownership influences out-performance of a high-growth firm, and whether it differs from the effect of two other important types of financial investors: banks and non-bank financial firms. We transform the levered return on equity into a unlevered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661265
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Does the Tenure of Private Equity Investment Improve the Performance of European Firms?
Badunenko, Oleg; Baum, Christopher F.; Schäfer, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
The paper investigates whether the presence and tenure of Private Equity (PE) investment in European companies improves their performance. Previous studies documented the unambiguous merit of a buyout during the 1980s and 1990s for listed firms in the US and UK markets. This study analyzes such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661269