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instrumental variable strategies, for instance based on the gender disparity in industries and occupations. Our results suggest …
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moderating effect of working time autonomy on this relation and we also consider the corresponding role of gender. First … autonomy on the link between mismatch and job satisfaction. Third, our analyses hint at gender-specific differences …: particularly women seem to benefit from the moderation role of working time autonomy." …
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, and job characteristics on ethnic and gender gaps. We find evidence of additional disadvantages of immigrant women on each … origin and gender. Based on theoretical arguments of human capital theory, sociocultural approaches, labour market … segmentation theory, and discrimination mechanisms, we investigate whether immigrant women experience more difficulties on the …
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Occupational sex segregation is a persistent source of social inequalities. The increasing participation of women in … tertiary education and rising female employment rates, however, have given hope that gender inequalities will decline as a … main assumptions hold that, even today, strong gender differences continue to exist between public and private sector …
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We analyze if technological progress and the change in the occupational structure have improved women's position in the … labour market. We show that women increasingly work in non-routine manual and in interactive occupations. However, the … observed narrowing of the gender wage gap is entirely driven by declining gender wag gaps within, rather than between …
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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 … partners. Decomposition analyses reveal that this gap is mostly driven by differences in characteristics between men and women … appear to be driven mostly by the wealth function, i.e., the way in which women transform their characteristics into wealth. …
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entrepreneurs still remain unanswered (particularly with reference to gender and generation of migration). Using the German Socio …
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satisfaction focusing in particular on gender differences. Controlling for a variety of socio-demographic, job and firm … effects. To gain insights into the reasons for this difference, we further investigate training characteristics by gender. We … of women. …
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-Economic Panel (SOEP). In married and cohabiting couples, men have, on average, 33,000 Euro more net worth than women. We look at ….g. self-employment, no migration background, inheritances, high income) that decrease the wealth gap for women increase it for … has the last word in financial decisions. -- wealth gap ; wealth inequality ; intra-household allocation ; gender …
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This paper argues that the socialist episode in East Germany, which constituted a radical experiment in gender equality … in the labor market and other instances, has left persistent tracks on gender norms. We focus on one of the most … resilient and pervasive gender gaps in modern societies: mathematics. Using the German division as a natural experiment, we show …
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