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In 2013, Stiftung Warentest tested hazelnut chocolate for their leading magazine, called Test. Stiftung Warentest is one of the most important consumer organizations in Germany. Ritter Sport is a high-quality producer of chocolate in Germany. Their hazelnut chocolate did not pass the test. It...
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's use of mass communication media to obtain information about the ECB. We employ a unique representative public opinion … of knowing about monetary policy, but to take the gender-specific differences into account in doing so. …
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the true state (of the world) of given cases. The investigation of assessment criteria improves the initial information … updated, allowing for a sorting of particular cases into ever smaller subclasses. However, receiving such information causes …
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risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are less …
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Increasing maternal employment rates engage policies and people for decades. It is pushed but also questioned at the same time depending on whether women are regarded in first line as mothers or workers. In Germany, the male breadwinner model is traditionally favored. The parent's money reform...
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explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognised that they have significant gender effects. To the …
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In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the developmental functioning of children at younger ages...
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evidence for a significant gender wealth gap of about 30,000 euros in Germany, which amounts to almost 50,000 euros for married …
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In Deutschland sind Frauen in Führungspositionen unterrepräsentiert. Je höher die Hierarchiestufe desto geringer ist ihr Anteil unter den Führungskräften. Nur 2,5 Prozent der Vorstandsmitglieder der Top-200 Wirtschaftsunternehmen in Deutschland sind weiblich. Zahlreiche Studien untersuchen...
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looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on gender differences in career chances. We compare managers and …-Economic Panel (SOEP) in 2005 show that there are significant gender differences in personality traits, multivariate estimations … clearly indicate that these differences cannot account for gender differences in career opportunities. Nevertheless …
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