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This paper studies the evolution of three higher education wage differentials from 1996 to 2019 in Germany, a period when significant changes in the educational composition of the workforce took place. Based on regression analysis and samples of male and female workers from the Socio-Economic...
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, however, do not contribute to a further closing of the gender wage gap. …
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world. Compared to existing models of this type, GEAR incorporates a comprehensive fiscal block, involuntary unemployment …
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pattern by the presence of two household goods and socially learned gender-specific comparative advantage in their home … production. We label this gender specialisation as separate housework spheres. Empirical evidence strongly confirms separate …
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How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a...
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. Exploiting a unique dataset, we show how age, gender, and education composition of executive teams affect risk taking of … financial institutions. First, we establish that age, gender, and education jointly affect the variability of bank performance … ; executives ; risk taking ; age ; gender ; education …
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country’s gender equality regime. Our empirical analysis involves household data on financial asset holdings as well as on … with the greatest degree of gender inequality according to the 2009 Global Gender Gap Report. Two stages of building a …, gender is found to have no effect in Austria, the Netherlands and Spain but does have an impact in Italy. However, even for …
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This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...
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To obtain a more complete understanding of the persisting gender earnings gap in Germany, this paper investigates both … the cross-sectional and biographical dimension of gender inequalities. Using an Oaxaca Blinder decomposition, we show that … the gender gap in annual earnings is largely driven by women's lower work experience and intensive margin of labor supply …
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