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formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … couples in West (but not East) Germany diminished the wife's labor market outcomes in order to avoid situations where she … would earn more than him.However, the significance of the male breadwinner prescription seems to decline in West Germany …
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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 …
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opportunities. Referring conflicting theoretical arguments, we hypothesize that in Germany – as a conservative welfare state – women …
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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...
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reunification in the destination country and decreases remittances. Third, the structure of the existing social network in Germany …
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The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed-effects models. It deals with the effect of occupational sex segregation on wages, and the extent to which wage penalties for managers in predominantly female occupations are...
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it all", but women must still choose between career and family in Germany. We argue that interventions need to address …
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women and men in management positions and other white-collar employees in Germany's private sector 2007. While bivariate …
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Germany to use time-constant unobserved heterogeneity and gender-specific promotion probabilities to estimate wages and wage …
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