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Gender-Specific Occupational Segregation, Glass Ceiling Effects, and Earnings in Managerial Positions : Results of a Fixed Effects Model
Busch, Anne - 2011
The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German … Germany to use time-constant unobserved heterogeneity and gender-specific promotion probabilities to estimate wages and wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130942
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Remittances and Gender : Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence
Holst, Elke - 2011
reunification in the destination country and decreases remittances. Third, the structure of the existing social network in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130944
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Self-Employment after Socialism : Intergenerational Links, Entrepreneurial Values, and Human Capital
Fritsch, Michael - 2012
post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the socialist regime significantly damaged this mechanism of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104020
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Occupational Sex Segregation and Management-Level Wages in Germany : What Role Does Firm Size Play?
Busch, Anne - 2012
The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed-effects models. It deals with the effect of occupational sex segregation on wages, and the extent to which wage penalties for managers in predominantly female occupations are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106351
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Stepping Forward : Personality Traits, Choice of Profession, and the Decision to Become Self-Employed
Fritsch, Michael - 2013
We argue that entrepreneurial choice proceeds in at least in two steps, with vocational choice nearly always preceding choice of employment status, whether that be self-employment or dependent employment. Since the two decisions are interrelated, analysis of entrepreneurial choice as a single...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086982
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Why Men Might 'Have it All' While Women Still Have to Choose between Career and Family in Germany
Trzcinski, Eileen - 2016
it all,” but women must still choose between career and family in Germany. We argue that interventions need to address …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013008719
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Do Women in Highly Qualified Positions Face Higher Work‐To‐Family Conflicts in Germany than Men?
Busch-Heizmann, Anne - 2018
opportunities. Referring conflicting theoretical arguments, we hypothesize that in Germany - as a conservative welfare state - women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920091
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Interrelationships among Locus of Control and Years in Management and Unemployment : Differences by Gender
Trzcinski, Eileen - 2010
This paper focuses on gender differences in the role played by locus of control within a model that predicts outcomes for men and women at two opposite poles of the labour market: high level managerial/leadership positions and unemployment. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147958
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Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and Out of Management Positions
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2010
it all”, but women must still choose between career and family in Germany. We argue that interventions need to address …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014195002
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Personality and Career - She’s Got What it Takes
Fietze, Simon; Holst, Elke; Tobsch, Verena - 2010
The female share in management positions is quite low in Germany. The higher the hierarchical level, the fewer women … boards of the top 200 private companies in Germany, only 2.5 percent of members are female. Many studies have focused on the … other white-collar employees in Germany’s private sector. While bivariate results based on data from the German Socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199805