data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the … attitudes but the "small difference" is used to investigate the difference in the propensity to become self-employed by gender … failure to be a reason not to start one's own business is important for the explanation of the gender gap in entrepreneurship. …

Women start fewer businesses than men. The start-up rate among women in Germany falls short of males' start-up rate by … one third. We scrutinize this gender gap using individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large …-scale population survey on start-up activity in Germany. As a unique feature, the data combine socio-demographic characteristics …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …

on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and … development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …

those expected from gender stereotypes. Unlike previous research on the topic, always based on opinions about individual … managers, this investigation uses firm-level evidence from the British 1998 Workplace Employment Relationship Survey (WERS 98 … female managers into specific responsibilities, are avoided in the research presented here. The results show that workplaces …

, despite tough competition in this industry. Interestingly, the gender gap exists only for managers of smaller funds, i.e. at …Based on a sample of 467 asset managers from four countries we robustly find that women manage smaller funds than men …. Going further, this gender gap is limited to large firms. Explanations may refer to large firms using market power in the …

The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed … managers in predominantly female occupations are moderated by firm size. Drawing on economic and organizational approaches and …

results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany …

We use monthly personnel records of a large German company to analyse the gender wage gap (GWG). Main findings are: (1 … significant impact on the GWG; (8) the gender gap in absenteeism is between 26 and 46 percent. Overall, the results are consistent … with statistical discrimination explanations of the gender wage gap, though we cannot rule out other forms of …