gender awareness and "pro-women" policies, this paper identifies the determinants of cross-national variation in women … density and employment protection. The first level of comparison between men and women concentrates on gender representation … structure of the service sector, including share of women in public employment and structural factors such as trade union …

confined to men. In particular, administrative data from public pension systems are less reliable for women because of the … analyze a large data set from the German public pension scheme on women who died between 1994 and 2005, employing both non …-parametric and parametric methods. To overcome the problem mentioned above we concentrate on women with relatively long earnings …

This paper explores the use of informal credit as a strategy for managing risks by market women in northern Ghana. A …. Based on qualitative data, the analysis reveals that market women invest a considerable amount of time in maintaining … high transaction costs and prevents market women from growing out of poverty in the long term. …

and gender-specific determinants of remittances from the senders' perspective, based on data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2006. Our findings show, above all, that foreign women remit less money than foreign … part of gender differences in remittance behavior. Second, employing gender interaction terms for the social network …

The female share in management positions is quite low in Germany. The higher the hierarchical level, the fewer women … 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 …

financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …This study questions the popular stereotype that women are more risk averse than men in their financial investment …

This study appraises the role of gender in the behavior of individuals who make risky investments. The analysis bases … studies, I find no evidence for gender differences. Males and females exhibit similar levels of risk propensity and their …

immigrants. Using unique German survey data, the paper identifies marked gender differences in the effects of ethnic …. Assimilated immigrant women do better than those separated and marginalized, but those who develop an attachment to both cultures …