and gender-specific determinants of remittances from the senders' perspective, based on data from the German Socio … men. Using information on the social network in the home country we find, first, that the social network abroad explains … part of gender differences in remittance behavior. Second, employing gender interaction terms for the social network …

there are in such positions. Men have numerous role models to follow whereas women lack this opportunity: In the executive … 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 …

immigrants. Using unique German survey data, the paper identifies marked gender differences in the effects of ethnic … identification on the probability to work controlling for a number of other determinants. While ethnically assimilated immigrant men …

males and females separately, and controlling for pre- and post-migration characteristics. We find strong gender differences …

evidence for a significant gender wealth gap of about 30,000 euros in Germany, which amounts to almost 50,000 euros for married … partners. Decomposition analyses reveal that this gap is mostly driven by differences in characteristics between men and women …

, gender and race. We find that adjusting for the aging of the U.S. labor force increases the severity of this recession. Our … "mancession," as men face higher job separation probabilities, lower job finding probabilities and, as a result, higher … particularly pronounced for men). …