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In this study, we examine the influence of competitiveness on the stability of labour relations using the example of … growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … competitiveness and labour market success and whether these effects depend on how the students' propensity to compete is measured. By …
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We compare the performance of high-ability adolescent girls and boys who participated in a a long-running Korean television quiz show. We find there is a gender gap in performance – in favour of boys – across episodes of the quiz show. To investigate underlying mechanisms that might explain...
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development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …
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We study gender differences in the labor market reallocation of Peruvian workers in response to trade liberalization. The empirical strategy relies on variation in import competition across local labor markets based on their industrial composition before China entered the global market in 2001....
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individual-level data for West Germany for the period 1983 to 1994, this paper explores both the demographic heterogeneity of …
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We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the …
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In Germany, an intensive public debate about increasing female participation in leadership positions started in 2009 …
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used to be a pricing factor in Germany's private health insurance (PHI) sector, it was never used as a pricing factor in …
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parental care work. Based on representative data for Germany we present an empirical analysis that shows greater support for …
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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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