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lower tail. We further document substantial gender differences in average earnings and inequality over the life-cycle. While …
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immigration and a decline in collective bargaining successfully explain occupational employment patterns during the 1990s. …
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This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for … violate traditional gender identity norms. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study we also find that the … exceeds the husband's income. The results of the fixed effects regression confirm that gender identity has an impact on the …
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institutional frameworks can shape fairly persistent gender identity prescriptions that influence house-hold economic decisions for … formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the …
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Changing employment conditions lead to new chances, but also new risks for employees. In the literature, increasing … positions differ in their perceived work-to-family conflicts (WFC), considering the mediating role of gender specific job …
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countries. We discuss the cross-country differences and similarities in IOp in the light of differences in social mobility and …
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Are the United States still a land of opportunity? We provide new insights on this question by invoking a novel measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity has increased by 77% over the time period 1983-2016....
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increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account household size. Therefore, there is an obvious link between these … distribution ; demography ; household size ; decomposition ; Germany …
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increased while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … on equivalence-weighted incomes, which take into account household size. Therefore, there is an obvious link between … ; household structure ; SOEP ; Germany …
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We survey samples of German firms and households to document novel stylized facts about the extent of information frictions among the two groups. First, firms' expectations about macroeconomic variables are closer to expert forecasts and less dispersed than households', consistent with higher...
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