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disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …
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related leave may impact the gender division of domestic work beyond the period of leave and examines three theoretical … explanations: 1) development of domestic work skills, 2) bargaining power based on economic resources, and 3) adaptations in gender … greater shift towards a gender-traditional division of domestic labour after childbirth even in the medium-term after labour …
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After the introduction in Section 2, we very briefly sketch out current theoretical and empirical developments in the social sciences. In our view, they all point in the same direction: toward the acute and increasing need for multidisciplinary longitudinal data covering a wide range of living...
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In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained …
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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 …
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traits on gender differences in career chances.We compare manager’s and other white collar employees in Germany’s private … signifcant gender differences in personal traits, multivariate estimations made clear that these differences cannot explain … gender differences in career chances. Nevertheless, personality traits might indeed play a role but more indirectly: Some of …
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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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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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This paper investigates gender differences in the spatial mobility of young adults when initially leaving their … Germany move across greater distances than males and whether these differences are explained by the gender gap in education … higher propensity of moving to West Germany. Education does not explain these gender differences. …
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This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past three decades, while explicitly taking into account labor supply choices. Using rich micro data, the observed distribution of couples' earnings is compared to a counterfactual...
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