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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471471
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992872
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Freedom of speech, deterrence, and compellence in the parliament
Altindag, Duha Tore; Mocan, Naci; Zhang, Jie - 2021
In most countries Parliamentary immunity protects lawmakers from civil or criminal charges while in office, and it shields them from prosecution for their political speech or political actions. This paper presents the first empirical analysis in the literature of the impact of Parliamentary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517500
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Work-life balance practices, performance-related pay, and gender equality in the workplace : evidence from Japan
Kato, Takao; Kodama, Naomi - 2015
This paper uses unique firm-level panel data from Japan and provides new evidence on the possible impact on gender equality in the workplace of human resources management (HRM) practices. Specifically we consider a number of work-life balance (WLB) practices that are developed in part to enhance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346576