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Job Satisfaction within the Scottish Academic Profession
Ward, Melanie E.; Sloane, Peter J. - 1999
overall job satisfaction do not vary widely by gender. This result is explained through the nature of our dataset, limited as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262271
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Sexual Bias and Household Consumption: A Semiparametric Analysis of Engel Curves in Rural China
Gong, Xiaodong; van Soest, Arthur; Zhang, Ping - 2000
?consumption expenditure patterns. We find some differences in consumption patterns which relate to differences in gender of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262418
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Individual risk attitudes: new evidence from a large, representative, experimentally-validated survey
Dohmen, Thomas - 2005
This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about willingness to take risks on an 11-point scale, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267371
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A gender perspective on self-employment entry and performance as self-employed
Andersson Joona, Pernilla; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2008
paper investigates variations in recruitment to self-employment and in self-employment performance by gender and by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268878
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The curse and blessing of training the unemployed in a changing economy: the case of East Germany after unification
Lechner, Michael; Miquel, Ruth; Wunsch, Conny - 2005
We analyse the effects of government-sponsored training for the unemployed conducted during East German transition. For the microeconometric analysis, we use a new, large and informative administrative database that allows us to use matching methods to reduce potential selection bias, to study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269226
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Life-cycle patterns in male/female differences in job search
Kunze, Astrid; Troske, Kenneth R. - 2009
analyze gender differences in job search taking into account observed and unobserved worker heterogeneity and censoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269565
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School shootings and student performance
Poutvaara, Panu; Ropponen, Olli - 2010
In this paper, we study how high school students reacted to the shocking news of a school shooting. The shooting coincided with national high-school matriculation exams. As there were exams both before and after the shooting, we can perform a difference-in-differences analysis to uncover how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269845
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Gender differences and dynamics in competition: The role of luck
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2010
, and differential responses to luck account for about half of the gender performance gap in our experiment. These findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269929
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Tournament incentives in the field: gender differences in the workplace
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Sol, Joeri; Verbeke, Willem - 2009
growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271284
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Gender differences in smoking behavior
Bauer, Thomas K.; Göhlmann, Silja; Sinning, Mathias - 2006
This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behavior using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP …). We develop a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models which allows to isolate the part of the gender … part attributable to differences in coefficients. Our results reveal that the major part of the gender smoking differential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271874