Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a …

ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling …

There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …

evidence for a significant gender wealth gap of about 30,000 euros in Germany, which amounts to almost 50,000 euros for married … partners. Decomposition analyses reveal that this gap is mostly driven by differences in characteristics between men and women … women transform their characteristics into wealth. …

Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …

proportion of working women employed part-time and Australia tops the OECD league in terms of its proportion of working men who … individual heterogeneity has been taken into account, part-time men and women typically earn an hourly pay premium. This premium …

for social custom effects in the determination of union membership. Using panel data for Germany, we find evidence for …

tracking. We calibrate the model for Germany and study how relative demand shifts toward more general skills and changes in the …