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The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller labor markets have a higher risk of working in jobs for which they are overqualified. This stems from the problem of dual job search for couples which is much more difficult to...
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's decision making has the potential to foster workers' political participation in civic society. Our study for Germany indeed …, separate estimations by gender show a positive association between works councils and political interest only for men, but not … for women. Traditional gender roles and disproportionate responsibility for family may make it difficult for women to be …
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participation and their wages have risen substantially. Our results suggest that there are gender-specific differences, e.g. female … does not significantly alter the probability of separation. -- Divorce ; labor division ; Germany …
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This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self … it all", but women must still choose between career and family in Germany. We argue that interventions need to address … to move into high positions in the private sector. -- well-being ; gender ; management ; non-management ; unemployment …
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This paper documents whether female East-West migrants in Germany after the reunification experience a gain or a …
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In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study … ambiguous reactions. An empirical analysis for Germany shows that minimum wages would affect total labor supply only weakly. Yet … ; gender …
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We analyze individual career transitions of men and women in Germany. Our particular focus is on the association of … unobserved individual characteristics. Independent of their sources, our results suggest clear gender differences in the …
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This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...
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more active in R&D. -- ageing ; firm performance ; gender ; Germany ; innovation ; R&D … on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and … development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …
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labor supply of full time working women, but only in Western Germany. We also show that gender identity affects the supply …This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for … Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to …
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