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The gender gap in competitiveness : women shy away from competing with others, but not from competing with themselves
Mollerstrom, Johanna; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 22/23, pp. 219-225
Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences between women’s and men’s education and career choices, and the labor market disparities that result. The experiments presented here show that even though women are less willing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011656928
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Frauen messen sich weniger an anderen als Männer, aber kein Unterschied beim Wettbewerb gegen sich selbst
Mollerstrom, Johanna; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW Wochenbericht 84 (2017) 22, pp. 431-437
Frauen sind im Durchschnitt seltener bereit, in Wettbewerb mit anderen Personen zu treten als Männer. Dieser Gender Gap … frühere Leistungen, in Wettbewerb zu treten. Dieses Ergebnis eröffnet Organisationen oder Unternehmen, die Chancengleichheit … anstreben, Möglichkeiten, ihre Anreizsysteme zu verändern, indem sie stärker auf Wettbewerb gegen die eigene frühere Leistung …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011661373
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The gender gap in competitiveness: Women shy away from competing with others, but not from competing with themselves
Mollerstrom, Johanna; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 7 (2017) 22/23, pp. 219-225
Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences between women's and men's education and career choices, and the labor market disparities that result. The experiments presented here show that even though women are less willing than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011661379
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Frauen messen sich weniger an anderen als Männer, aber kein Unterschied beim Wettbewerb gegen sich selbst
Mollerstrom, Johanna; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 84 (2017) 22, pp. 431-437
Frauen sind im Durchschnitt seltener bereit, in Wettbewerb mit anderen Personen zu treten als Männer. Dieser Gender Gap … frühere Leistungen, in Wettbewerb zu treten. Dieses Ergebnis eröffnet Organisationen oder Unternehmen, die Chancengleichheit … anstreben, Möglichkeiten, ihre Anreizsysteme zu verändern, indem sie stärker auf Wettbewerb gegen die eigene frühere Leistung …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657272
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Why are mothers working longer hours in Austria than in Germany? A comparative micro simulation analysis
Dearing, Helene; Hofer, Helmut; Lietz, Christine; … - 2007
Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293998
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Why are mothers working longer hours in Austria than in Germany? A comparative micro simulation analysis
Dearing, Helene; Hofer, Helmut; Lietz, Christine; … - 2007
Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294601
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Labor supply and child care choices in a rationed child care market
Wrohlich, Katharina - 2006
Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267594
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Fiscal policy in action : introducing family tax splitting in Germany ; how would it affect the income distribution, work incentives, and household welfare?
Steiner, Viktor; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: FinanzArchiv : European journal of public finance 64 (2008) 1, pp. 115-142
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Preferences for childcare policies : theory and evidence
Borck, Rainald (contributor);  … - 2008
We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755931
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Financial student aid and enrollment into higher education : new evidence from Germany
Steiner, Viktor (contributor);  … - 2008
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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