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Women on the board and executive duration: Evidence for European listed firms
Buchwald, Achim; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2015
diversity suggests positive effects of gender diverse boards on corporate governance and even firm performance. The mechanism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491290
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Women on the board and executive duration: Evidence for European listed firms
Buchwald, Achim; Hottenrott, Hanna - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015
diversity suggests positive effects of gender diverse boards on corporate governance and even firm performance. The mechanism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011203170
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Ungleichheit und die differentiellen Erträge frühkindlicher Bildungsinvestitionen im Lebenszyklus
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2008
Um Hinweise für die Erträge von Investitionen in die Fähigkeiten von Kindern im Vorschulalter geben zu können, möchten wir in diesem Beitrag die Ergebnisse von Simulationen zur Diskussion stellen. Der Humankapitalerwerb wird als Funktion von kognitiven und nichtkognitiven Fähigkeiten...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297996
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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor: what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?
Wolf, Elke - 2000
Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this back-of-the-envelope calculation overestimates the effect of loosening hours constraints, because even in a very flexible labor market there will exist hours restrictions for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297718
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Female labor force participation and the big five
Wichert, Laura; Pohlmeier, Winfried - 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits and female labor force participation. While research on the role of cognitive skills for individual labor market success has a long tradition in economics, comparatively little is known about the channels through which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299928
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The CoViD-19 pandemic and mental health: Disentangling crucial channels
Siflinger, Bettina; Paffenholz, Michaela; Seitz, Sebastian - 2021
for parents of children below the age of 12. Among parents, the patterns are particularly pronounced for fathers if they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012544976
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Asymmetries and interdependencies in time use between Italian parents
Mancini, Anna Laura; Pasqua, Silvia - 2011
In recent decades, changes in parents' attitudes towards the importance of spending time with children to optimise … non-working parents in all developed countries. We compare the two waves of the Italian Time Use dataset (1988 and 2002 … employment rate and a continuous decline in total fertility rate. We focus especially on how parents' time with their children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304321
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Asymmetries and interdependencies in time use between Italian parents
Mancini, Anna Laura; Pasqua, Silvia - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
In recent decades, changes in parents' attitudes towards the importance of spending time with children to optimise … non-working parents in all developed countries. We compare the two waves of the Italian Time Use dataset (1988 and 2002 … employment rate and a continuous decline in total fertility rate. We focus especially on how parents' time with their children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008869232
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What drives the vacancy rate for information technology workers?
Falk, Martin - 2001
This paper provides empirical evidence on both the magnitude and determinants of unfilled positions for information technology workers using cross-sectional data on 4150 German firms. Vacancies are defined as unfilled positions excluding those created by replacement needs during the first half...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297781
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The long-term earnings' effects of a credit market disruption
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; De Philippis, Marta; Sette, Enrico - 2023
This paper studies the long-term consequences on firms and workers of the credit crunch triggered by the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. Relying on a unique matched bank-employer-employee administrative dataset, we construct a firm-specific credit supply shock and examine firms' and workers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446339