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Gender diversity and diversity of ideas
Belot, Michèle; Kurmangaliyeva, Madina; Reuter, … - 2023
Diversity in employee representation is often advocated for its potential to promote the diversity of ideas, and thereby innovation. In this study, we shed light on the phenomenon of 'idea homophily', which is a tendency to be more interested in ideas closer to one's own. We first document...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437231
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Works councils and organizational gender policies in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2019
establishments in Germany. Using data of the IAB Establishment Panel, we find that the incidence of a works council is associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006249
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Early child care and labor supply of lower-SES mothers : a randomized controlled trial
Hermes, Henning; Krauß, Marina; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2022
We present experimental evidence that enabling access to universal early child care for families with lower socioeconomic status (SES) increases maternal labor supply. Our intervention provides families with customized help for child care applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment...
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Childcare and maternal employment : evidence from Vietnam
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Hiraga, Masako; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2019
Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing country context, and the few recent studies offer mixed results. We attempt to fill these gaps by analyzing several latest rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140128
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Ex post inequality of opportunity comparisons
Fleurbaey, Marc; Peragine, Vitorocco; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2015
criteria to measuring inequality of opportunity in Germany. We illustrate our ex-post inequality of opportunity approach based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347163
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Anonymous job applications of fresh Ph.D. economists
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
Discrimination in recruitment decisions is well documented. Anonymous job applications may reduce discriminatory behavior in hiring. This paper analyzes the potential of this approach in a randomized experiment with fresh Ph.D. economists on the academic job market using data from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009518411
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Anonymous job applications in Europe
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2012
recently conducted. Also in Germany, a large field experiment has examined the practicability and potentials of this approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681322
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Gender role models and early career decisions
Löwe, Monique; Rinne, Ulf; Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2021
This paper analyzes the link between the subject choices of German students in upper secondary school and teacher gender when these choices are taken. Our results corroborate the hypothesis that teacher gender matters in this regard, and they indicate that girls respond more strongly than boys...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607597
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Has the push for equal gender representation changed the role of women on German supervisory boards?
Bozhinov, Viktor; Koch, Christopher; Schank, Thorsten - 2017
In Germany, an intensive public debate about increasing female participation in leadership positions started in 2009 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735913
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Undoing gender with institutions : lessons from the German division and reunification
Lippmann, Quentin; Georgieff, Alexandre; … - 2019
Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created … a culture that has undone the male breadwinner norm and its consequences. Since reunification, East Germany still … differs from West Germany not only by a higher female contribution to household income, but also because East German women can …
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