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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 …, personality traits might indeed play a role, albeit more indirectly: Some of the stronger career effects, such as work experience …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596277
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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963624
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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963826
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Occupational Choice across Generations
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation occupational choice and mobility is even less investigated. Such research is important because occupations determine success in the labor market. In a country like Germany occupations also reflect a general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963726
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Does Employer Learning Vary by Occupation?
Mansour, Hani - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Models in which employers learn about the productivity of young workers, such as Altonji and Pierret (2001), have two principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second, the coefficient on a variable that employers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568245
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Labor Markets and the Financial Crisis: Evidence from Tajikistan
Kröger, Antje; Meier, Kristina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
The financial crisis in 2008/2009 substantially influenced the everyday social and economic life of many Tajik people, including their behavior in the labor market. However, not much is known about the dynamics of the labor markets of the transition economies, especially in the context of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368911
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Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants
Zimmermann, Laura; Gataullina, Liliya; Constant, Amelie; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963915
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The Gender Gap Reloaded: Are School Characteristics Linked to Labor Market Performance?
Konstantopoulos, Spyros; Constant, Amelie - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
This study examines the wage gender gap of young adults in the 1970s, 1980s, and 2000 in the US. Using quantile regression we estimate the gender gap across the entire wage distribution. We also study the importance of high school characteristics in predicting future labor market performance. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068670
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Glass Ceiling Effect and Earnings: The Gender Pay Gap in Managerial Positions in Germany
Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
Although there are a variety of studies on the gender pay gap, only a few relate to managerial positions. The present study attempts to fill this gap. Managers in private companies in Germany are a highly selective group of women and men, who differ only marginally in their human capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068700
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Gender-Specific Occupational Segregation, Glass Ceiling Effects, and Earnings in Managerial Positions: Results of a Fixed Effects Model
Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
inequality on earnings levels and gender wage differentials in management positions. Our paper is, to our knowledge, the first in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008802403