whether this type of behavior persists when risk comes into play. I devise an experiment which sheds light on the …

whether experiencing financial and health-related damage caused by storms affects risk preference of individuals in Germany …

regime. -- tax reforms ; tax compliance ; experiment …

In two empirical surveys in Germany the link between the information respondents have about climate change and their … correspond with higher risk perception. Further factors affecting the risk perception of climate change are gender, experience of …

Germany in the time period 1985-2002. Returns to education are estimated using Mincer equations. We analyze microcensus data … first time for Germany in such detail. The data indicate an educational expansion, especially for women in West Germany …, which is coherent with the relatively high returns to this group. One interesting finding is that each gender reaches the …

Most existing analyses on the gender wage gap (GWG) have neglected the establishment as a place where inequality … the individual and consider the importance of the workplace to explain gender pay differentials. That is, we first provide … Germany. The innovation of our research is that we do not just compare average male and female wages (of specific groups of …

The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been … women to that of men. In this study, we use a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct …. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in nonroutine analytic tasks and non …

-- Start-ups ; performance ; gender ; female entrepreneurship …