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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...
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looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on gender differences in career chances. We compare managers and … clearly indicate that these differences cannot account for gender differences in career opportunities. Nevertheless … influence of human capital and other "objective" factors on career opportunities. In our study, we go a step further by also …
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inequality is the presence of gender stereotypes in many domains of society. We describe two approaches employed to measure … gender stereotypes: An explicit questionnaire based on rating scales and a newly developed Implicit Association Test … assessing gender stereotypes representing instrumentality (i.e., agency) and expressivity (i.e., communion). We first present …
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disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …
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While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). In married and cohabiting couples,...
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Increasing maternal employment rates engage policies and people for decades. It is pushed but also questioned at the same time depending on whether women are regarded in first line as mothers or workers. In Germany, the male breadwinner model is traditionally favored. The parent's money reform...
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In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the developmental functioning of children at younger ages...
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explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognised that they have significant gender effects. To the …
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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 …
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This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self … it all", but women must still choose between career and family in Germany. We argue that interventions need to address …
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