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Does it pay to be a woman? : labour demand effects of maternity-related job protection and replacement incomes
Scheubel, Beatrice - 2014
In countries with strong employment protection laws it is often considered to be unwise to hire a woman in childbearing age because she might get pregnant. However, such labour demand e ects of job protection measures related to maternity leave are often rather anecdotal. To provide analytical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415783
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Discrimination in hiring based on potential and realized fertility : evidence from a large-scale field experiment
Becker, Sascha O.; Fernandes, Ana; Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2019
Due to conventional gender norms, women are more likely to be in charge of childcare than men. From an employer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022450
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Remittances and gender : theoretical considerations and empirical evidence
Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - 2011
In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826713
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The feminization of occupations and change in wages : a panel analysis of Britain, Germany and Switzerland
Murphy, Emily; Oesch, Daniel - 2015
disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010476260
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The role of body weight for health, earnings, and life satisfaction
Hübler, Olaf - 2019
analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. If control variables are added, estimates are split by gender and different effects of over- and underweight people are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011981371
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Personality and career : she's got what it takes
Jebsen, Simon; Holst, Elke; Tobsch, Verena - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636698
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COVID-19: a crisis of the female self-employed
Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; Seebauer, Johannes - 2020
We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the governmentmandated measures to contain its spread, affected the self-employed relative to employed individuals in Germany and, secondly, to what extent the female self-employed were more strongly hit than their male...
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Taking power : women's empowerment and household well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa
Annan, Jeannie; Donald, Aletheia; Goldstein, Markus P.; … - 2019
how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121195
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The effect of schooling on parental integration : evidence from Germany
Sommerfeld, Ann-Marie - 2023
Exploiting the age-at-enrollment policies in 16 German states as exogenous source of variation, I examine whether the schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents' integration. My analysis links administrative records on primary school enrollment cutoff dates with micro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014432476
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Gender, transnational networks and remittances : evidence from Germany
Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - 2010
and gender-specific determinants of remittances from the senders' perspective, based on data from the German Socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825563