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We analyze a large sample of participants in mixed-gender Rubik's Cube competitions. Focusing on participants who barely made or missed the cut for the second round in a competition, we examine their likelihood of joining another competition in the future. We find a significant gender...
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during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. We contribute to the current literature by analyzing the medium-term dynamics of …
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This paper investigates if there is state dependence in the gender composition of managers in German establishments. We analyze whether the number of hired female managers (respectively the share of females within hired managers) depends on the past hiring decisions of an establishment. Using...
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Modern women often face an uneasy choice: dedicating their time to reproductive household work, or joining the …-trivial costs, and necessarily involve some trade-offs, influencing the general feeling of happiness women experience given their … decision. The trade-offs are especially pronounced in traditional developing countries, where both the pressure for women to …
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lesbians in Germany. Applications for four fictional female characters are sent out in response to job advertisements: a … registered partnership are equally discriminated in comparison to the heterosexual women in the city of Munich, no discrimination …
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-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In married and cohabiting couples men's net worth, on average, is 33,000 euros higher than women's. We ….g., self-employment, no migration background, inheritances, high income) that decrease the wealth gap for women increase it for …
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Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a … care ; labor supply ; discrete choice ; panel study ; Germany …
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Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …
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evidence for a significant gender wealth gap of about 30,000 euros in Germany, which amounts to almost 50,000 euros for married … partners. Decomposition analyses reveal that this gap is mostly driven by differences in characteristics between men and women … women transform their characteristics into wealth. -- Wealth gap ; wealth inequality ; gender ; SOEP …
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By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to … time use to it. Widows differ from otherwise similar married women, especially from married women with working husbands, by …. Evidence from the European countries shows that widows feel less time stress than married women but are also less satisfied …
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