activities. Women are relatively often and foreigners rarely represented in the start-up actvities of the service sector. …

confined to men. In particular, administrative data from public pension systems are less reliable for women because of the … analyze a large data set from the German public pension scheme on women who died between 1994 and 2005, employing both non …-parametric and parametric methods. To overcome the problem mentioned above we concentrate on women with relatively long earnings …

family gap in pay - the differential in hourly wages between women with children and women without children. We present … results from seven countries: Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, Finland, and Sweden. We find … that there is a good deal of variation across our sample countries in the effects of children on women's employment. We …

migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double disadvantage. In both …

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in … monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to women working fewer hours than men. In contrast variables like family … that self-employed women do not earn less because they are seeking work-family balance rather than profits. Differences in …

This paper investigates wage gaps between part- and full-time women workers in six OECD countries in the mid-1990s …. Using comparable micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), for Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the UK, and the US …-time workers. The paper finds a part-time wage penalty among women workers in all countries, except Sweden. Other than in Sweden …

This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as … in two countries (the UK and Germany using the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey). We … find decreases in working-hours bring about positive and significant improvement on well-being for women. …

Das Thema einer gesetzlichen Mindestquote für Frauen in Führungspositionen der Privatwirtschaft ist in Deutschland …

tendency of women to start businesses in the service sector, which is underrepresented in the crafts. Women also tend to be … women to care for children and actively participate in the labor force at the same time. On the other, incomes are generally … lower. Women are more risk averse and tend to be more cautious in their entrepreneurial endeavors. They are more likely to …