This paper examines the role of work-life balance practices (WLB) in explaining the “paradoxof the contented female worker”. After establishing that females report higher levels of jobsatisfaction than men in the UK, we test whether firm characteristics such as WLB andgender segregation...

The predominant part of the literature states that women are more likely to donate tocharitable causes but men are more generous in terms of the amount given. The last resultgenerally derives from the focus on mean amount given...

Using time-diary data from 25 countries, we demonstrate that there is a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and the female-male difference in total work time per day the sum of work for pay and work at home. In rich northern countries on four continents there is no difference men...

Using unique representative data containing self-reported functional and clinically measuredhearing ability for the Danish population aged 50-64, we estimate the effect of hearing losson receipt of disability benefits accounting for potential endogeneity of functional hearing...

This study examines the role of individual characteristics, occupation, industry, region, andworkplace characteristics in accounting for differences in hourly earnings between men andwomen in full and part-time jobs in Britain. A four-way gender-working time split (male fulltimers,male...

Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientationand gender wage differentials in international data. More market orientation might be relatedto gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in product and labor markets and thegeneral absence of...

There are robust gender differences in the domains of risk taking, overconfidence and competitionbehavior. However, as expertise tends to level these differences, we ask whether financialexperts still show gender dissimilarities in their domains of decision making? We analyzesurvey responses of...

Als Konrad Adenauer in den 50er Jahren sagte:„Kinder kriegen die Leute sowieso“ und mit diesemArgument verhinderte, dass ein wesentlicherTeil gesellschaftlicher Sorgearbeit von Frauen indie Sozialversicherung aufgenommen wurde, hatteer sich bitter getäuscht. Heute ist bekannt, dassdie...

This paper investigates gender differentials in the aftermath of vocational training in Germany. The study documents the existence of substantial gender wage gaps for the homogeneous group of individuals with completed apprenticeship training. Evidence is presented that the gender differential...

Dieser Artikel beschäftigt sich mit geschlechtsspezifischen Verhaltensunterschieden bei Fondsmanagern. Wir untersuchen, ob sich weibliche und männliche Fondsmanagern bezüglich ihres Anlageverhaltens unterscheiden und welche Auswirkungen dies auf die Performance sowie die Zuflüsse von...