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in two countries (the UK and Germany using the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey). We …
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The discussion paper picks out the objective and the subjective well-being of the unemployed in Germany compared to the …
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The female share in management positions is quite low in Germany. The higher the hierarchical level, the fewer women … boards of the top 200 private companies in Germany, only 2.5 percent of members are female. Many studies have focused on the … other white-collar employees in Germany’s private sector. While bivariate results based on data from the German Socio …
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Using German panel data from 1984 to 2007, we analyze the impact of labor division between husband and wife on the risk of divorce. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that specialization in domestic and market work, respectively, reduces the risk of separation. Traditionally, the...
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study attempts to fill this gap. Managers in private companies in Germany are a highly selective group of women and men, who …
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precarious employment in Germany from 1984 to 2013. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) through the Luxembourg … stability to the German coordinated market economy, Germany increasingly exhibits substantial dualization, liberalization …
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Due to its extraordinary explanatory power for individual behavior, the interest in the concept of locus of control (LOC) has increased substantially within applied economic research. But, even though LOC has been found to affect economic behavior in many ways, the reliability of these findings...
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opportunities. Referring conflicting theoretical arguments, we hypothesize that in Germany - as a conservative welfare state - women …
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it all,” but women must still choose between career and family in Germany. We argue that interventions need to address …
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This paper estimates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the level of social participation of their spouse. Using German panel data, it is shown that unemployment has a strong negative effect on public social activities of both directly and indirectly affected spouses. Private social...
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