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Why men might "have it all" while women still have to choose between career and family in Germany
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2011
it all", but women must still choose between career and family in Germany. We argue that interventions need to address …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826707
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A critique and reframing of personality in labour market theory : locus of control and labour market outcomes
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2011
This article critically examines the theoretical arguments that underlie the literature linking personality traits to economic outcomes and provides empirical evidence indicating that labour market outcomes influence personality outcomes. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357268
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Gender identity and womens' supply of labor and non-market work : panel data evidence for Germany
Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2015
This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for … Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to … labor supply of full time working women, but only in Western Germany. We also show that gender identity affects the supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391706
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Getting poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany
Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015
We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305299
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Internalized gender stereotypes vary across socioeconomic indicators
Dietrich, Julia; Schnabel, Konrad; Ortner, Tuulia M.; … - 2013
In the following we aim to approach the question of why, in most domains of professional and economic life, women are more vulnerable than men to becoming targets of prejudice and discrimination by proposing that one important cause of this inequality is the presence of gender stereotypes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009747760
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Distributional effects of a minimum wage in a welfare state : the case of Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013
examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241628
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Occupational sex segregation and management-level wages in Germany : what role does firm size play?
Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2012
The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed-effects models. It deals with the effect of occupational sex segregation on wages, and the extent to which wage penalties for managers in predominantly female occupations are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009541720
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An integrated micro data base for tax analysis in Germany
Bach, Stefan; Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - 2017
die Steuerlast in Deutschland? - Verteilungswirkungen des deutschen Steuer- und Transfersystems” (Who bears the tax burden … in Germany? – Distributional Analyses of the German tax and transfer system). Financial support from the Hans Böckler …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638872
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Do women in highly qualified positions face higher work-to-family conflicts in Germany than men?
Busch-Heizmann, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2017
opportunities. Referring conflicting theoretical arguments, we hypothesize that in Germany - as a conservative welfare state - women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638877
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Gender identity and wives' labor market outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016
Sprengholz, Maximilian; Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2019
formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … couples in West (but not East) Germany diminished the wife's labor market outcomes in order to avoid situations where she … would earn more than him. However, the significance of the male breadwinner prescription seems to decline in West Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994425