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The paper proceeds from the assumption that the inequalities of opportunity between men and women on the labor market and in society overall tend to consolidate in the management bodies of large companies. The predominance of men on the supervisory boards of Germany's largest private sector...
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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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This paper studies the causal effects of graduating from university with an honors degree on subsequent earnings. While a rich body of literature has focused on estimating returns to human capital, few studies have analyzed returns at the very top of the education distribution. We highlight the...
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neoclassical economics (rational choice approach), (2) implicit rules of behavior generated by gender roles and gender stereo …. The necessity of a gender view in economics when analyzing the labor supply - especially of women - is discussed on the … Regelmechanismen auf die Allokation von Ressourcen. Anhand dreier Thesen wird die Notwendigkeit einer Gender-Perspektive (soziale …
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The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage … (labor supply) of the wage gap? We demonstrate how the gender gap in gross hourly wages shows up in the distribution of …-benefit system and other sources of household income. We present a methodological framework for deriving the gender wage gap in terms …
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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 … the two minority groups. We find significant wage gender disparities favoring men across all three surveys in the 1970s …
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Although there are a variety of studies on the gender pay gap, only a few relate to managerial positions. The present … differ only marginally in their human capital endowments. The Oaxaca/Blinder decomposition shows that the gender pay gap in … the gross monthly salary can hardly be explained using the human capital approach. Adding variables on gender …
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The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German … Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2008. It focuses in particular on gender segregation in the labor … inequality on earnings levels and gender wage differentials in management positions. Our paper is, to our knowledge, the first in …
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The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed …
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The aim of this paper is to study the short and long-term fertility effects of mass violent conflict on different population sub-groups. The authors pool three nationally representative demographic and health surveys from before and after the genocide in Rwanda, identifying conflict exposure of...
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