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mobility patterns than men. Recent longitudinal studies of gender specific travel demand reveal converging mobility of males … and females. Moreover, in some countries results show convergence between cohort and gender specific travel demand: women … ever before. Do these developments hold also for Germany? Based on socio-economic and demographic analysis of gender …
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Russia and Ukraine are in the process of many changes stemming from economic transition, restructuring, demographic change and other various ongoing challenges. In terms of the ongoing challenges in each country, there are specific problems related to historical developments, such as large scale...
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Economic losses caused by tropical cyclones have increased dramatically. It can be assumed that most losses are due to increased prosperity and a greater tendency for people to settle in exposed areas, but also that the growing incidence of severe cyclones is due to climate change. This paper...
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It is still an open question whether increasing life expectancy as such is causing higher health care expenditures (HCE) in a population. According to the "red herring" hypothesis, the positive correlation between age and HCE is exclusively due to the fact that mortality rises with age and a...
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evidence for a significant gender wealth gap of about 30,000 euros in Germany, which amounts to almost 50,000 euros for married …Welfare-oriented analyses of economic outcome measures such as income and wealth generally rest on the assumption of … distribution of income and wealth within the household context. Based on unique individual-level wealth data from the German Socio …
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and gender-specific determinants of remittances from the senders' perspective, based on data from the German Socio … part of gender differences in remittance behavior. Second, employing gender interaction terms for the social network … effects suggests that remittance behavior is affected by traditional gender roles. Third, the migrant's social integration in …
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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 …
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The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants' ethnic persistence and assimilation....
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immigrants. Using unique German survey data, the paper identifies marked gender differences in the effects of ethnic …
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males and females separately, and controlling for pre- and post-migration characteristics. We find strong gender differences …
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