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Interrelationships among locus of control and years in management and unemployment : differences by gender
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824281
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Gender, transnational networks and remittances : evidence from Germany
Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - 2010
Remittances from Germany are substantial. Cross-border transfers to family and friendship networks outside Germany are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825563
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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/10008825923
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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 - 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/10008826704
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Why men might "have it all" while women still have to choose between career and family in Germany
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2011
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/10008826707
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Remittances and gender : theoretical considerations and empirical evidence
Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - 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/10008826713
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A critique and reframing of personality in labour market theory : locus of control and labour market outcomes
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2011
This article critically examines the theoretical arguments that underlie the literature linking personality traits to economic outcomes and provides empirical evidence indicating that labour market outcomes influence personality outcomes. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357268
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Gender identity and womens' supply of labor and non-market work : panel data evidence for Germany
Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2015
Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to … labor supply of full time working women, but only in Western Germany. We also show that gender identity affects the supply … a higher income than their husbands, we find for Germany that women only barely reduce their weekly hours of non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391706
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Internalized gender stereotypes vary across socioeconomic indicators
Dietrich, Julia; Schnabel, Konrad; Ortner, Tuulia M.; … - 2013
In the following we aim to approach the question of why, in most domains of professional and economic life, women are more vulnerable than men to becoming targets of prejudice and discrimination by proposing that one important cause of this inequality is the presence of gender stereotypes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009747760
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Occupational sex segregation and management-level wages in Germany : what role does firm size play?
Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - 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/10009541720