into self-employment and survival of self-employed persons in Germany. The empirical analysis reveals that among the … one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship - education - and approximately three times larger than … parental selfemployment. -- Entrepreneurship ; Personality ; Big Five ; Risk Aversion ; Locus of Control …

; necessity ; entrepreneurship …

. 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 …

A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany … well as life-cycle and birth cohort effects, we go beyond conventional decomposition techniques of the average gender wage … gap. The paper provides some stylized facts of the level and dynamics of the gender wage gap from 1975 - 1995. The …

consequence, more necessity entrepreneurship and worse startup outcomes in terms of sales and employment growth. We explain this …

gender equality is aligned with shareholder interests. This positive effect is not explained by increased risk-taking or …

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 …