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Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and out of Management Positions
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540168
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Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behavior
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018712
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Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants
Schüller, Simone - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation in the host country. Empirical results based on data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128954
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Gender, Transnational Networks and Remittances: Evidence from Germany
Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
and gender-specific determinants of remittances from the senders' perspective, based on data from the German Socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008595844
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Personality and Career: She's Got What It Takes
Fietze, Simon; Holst, Elke; Tobsch, Verena - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 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 … clearly indicate that these differences cannot account for gender differences in career opportunities. Nevertheless …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596279
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Persönlichkeit und Karriere: She's Got What it Takes
Fietze, Simon; Holst, Elke; Tobsch, Verena - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
In Deutschland sind Frauen in Führungspositionen unterrepräsentiert. Je höher die Hierarchiestufe desto geringer ist ihr Anteil unter den Führungskräften. Nur 2,5 Prozent der Vorstandsmitglieder der Top-200 Wirtschaftsunternehmen in Deutschland sind weiblich. Zahlreiche Studien untersuchen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479307
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Remittances and Gender: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence
Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804166
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The Feminization of Occupations and Change in Wages: A Panel Analysis of Britain, Germany and Switzerland
Murphy, Emily; Oesch, Daniel - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015
disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185789
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Risk Attitudes and Investment Decisions across European Countries: Are Women More Conservative Investors than Men?
Badunenko, Oleg; Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008461828
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Testing the 'Residential Rootedness': Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK
Reuschke, Darja; Ham, Maarten Van - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Based on the notion that entrepreneurship is a 'local event' , the literature argues that selfemployed workers and entrepreneurs are 'rooted' in place. This paper tests the 'residential rootedness'-hypothesis of self-employment by examining for Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368913