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Why men might "have it all" while women still have to choose between career and family in Germany
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2011
it all", but women must still choose between career and family in Germany. We argue that interventions need to address …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826707
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A critique and reframing of personality in labour market theory : locus of control and labour market outcomes
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2011
This article critically examines the theoretical arguments that underlie the literature linking personality traits to economic outcomes and provides empirical evidence indicating that labour market outcomes influence personality outcomes. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357268
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Gender identity and womens' supply of labor and non-market work : panel data evidence for Germany
Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2015
Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to … labor supply of full time working women, but only in Western Germany. We also show that gender identity affects the supply … a higher income than their husbands, we find for Germany that women only barely reduce their weekly hours of non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391706
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Getting poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany
Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015
We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305299
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Internalized gender stereotypes vary across socioeconomic indicators
Dietrich, Julia; Schnabel, Konrad; Ortner, Tuulia M.; … - 2013
In the following we aim to approach the question of why, in most domains of professional and economic life, women are more vulnerable than men to becoming targets of prejudice and discrimination by proposing that one important cause of this inequality is the presence of gender stereotypes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009747760
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Distributional effects of a minimum wage in a welfare state : the case of Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013
examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241628
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The effects of family policy on mothers' labor supply : combining evidence from a structural model and a natural experiment
Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014
employment effects of these policies for mothers in Germany. In particular we estimate a structural labor supply model and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345617
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Remittances and Gender : Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence
Holst, Elke - 2011
reunification in the destination country and decreases remittances. Third, the structure of the existing social network in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130455
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Gender-Specific Occupational Segregation, Glass Ceiling Effects, and Earnings in Managerial Positions : Results of a Fixed Effects Model
Busch, Anne - 2011
Germany to use time-constant unobserved heterogeneity and gender-specific promotion probabilities to estimate wages and wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130797
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Empirical Welfare Analysis in Random Utility Models of Labour Supply
Decoster, André - 2010
comparison, more explicit. On the basis of microdata from the Socio Economic Panel (SOEP) for married couples in Germany, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136035