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Financial Student Aid and Enrollment into Higher Education : New Evidence from Germany

Steiner, Viktor; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2021

We estimate the elasticity of enrollment into higher education with respect to the amount of means tested student aid (BAfoeG) provided by the federal government using the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP). Potential student aid is derived on the basis of a detailed tax-benefit microsimulation...

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Should mama or papa work? : variations in attitudes towards parental employment by country of origin and child age

Gambaro, Ludovica; Spieß, C. Katharina; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: Comparative population studies : CPoS ; open acess … 48 (2023), pp. 369-394

maternal and paternal employment. It focuses on Germany, drawing on data from the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA … views of respondents with different origins: West Germany, East Germany, immigrants from different world regions, and second …-generation migrants in West Germany. The results highlight remarkable differences between respondents from West and East Germany, with the …

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Share of women on the executive boards of large companies has increased, but generally Is at most one woman

Sondergeld, Virginia; Wrohlich, Katharina; Kirsch, Anja - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 14 (2024) 3, pp. 17-28

The number of women serving on the executive boards of large companies in Germany once again increased in 2023: Around …

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Proportion of women on top-decision making bodies of large companies increasing, except on supervisory boards in the financial sector

Kirsch, Anja; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 10 (2020) 4/5, pp. 32-42

The share of women on executive boards of large companies in Germany has increased somewhat more strongly than in …

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Boards of major German companies are gradually changing

Kirsch, Anja; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 10 (2020) 4/5, pp. 30-31

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More women on supervisory boards: increasing indications that the effect of the gender quota extends to executive boards

Kirsch, Anja; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 10 (2020) 4/5, pp. 44-49

The statutory gender quota for supervisory boards is effective: the proportion of women on supervisory boards has increased over the past years, especially in the companies subject to the quota. But is the quota creating trickle-down effects for executive boards? As the second part of the DIW...

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Geschlechterquoten im europäischen Vergleich : harte Sanktionen bei Nichteinhaltung sind am wirkungsvollsten

Arndt, Paula; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 86 (2019) 38, pp. 691-698

börsennotierten Unternehmen in europäischen Ländern zeigt, sind gesetzlich verbindliche Geschlechterquoten das deutlich wirksamere … Mittel. Das gilt umso mehr, wenn den Unternehmen bei Nichteinhaltung der gesetzlichen Geschlechterquote harte Sanktionen wie …

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Income Taxation and Household Size: Would French Family Splitting Make German Families Better off?

Baclet, Alexandre; Dell, Fabien; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2005

in Germany, as it is often claimed in the public debate. We use two micro-data sets and a micro-simulation model to … compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular …. Actually, low income families with less than three children even fare better in terms of tax relief in Germany than in France …

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Financial sector: Banks fall behind and now have a lower proportion of women on executive and advisory boards than insurance companies

Holst, Elke; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 7 (2017) 1/2, pp. 16-28

Women are still in the clear minority among the financial sector's top decision-making bodies. According to DIW Berlin's Women Executives Barometer, at the end of 2016, 21 percent of the supervisory and administrative board members of the 100 largest banks were female. The number has stagnated...

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Top decision-making bodies in large companies: Gender quota shows initial impact on supervisory boards executive board remains a male bastion

Holst, Elke; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 7 (2017) 1/2, pp. 3-15

highest performing companies in Germany (eight percent). In companies with government-owned shares, the momentum has decreased …

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