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highlight that any expected disproportionate impact of economic liberalization on women is more likely to come from civil …
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. -- financial sector ; board diversity ; women CEOs ; gender equality ; management ; public and private banks ; insurance companies …
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erhofften Durchbruch bei den Besetzungen von Vorständen und Aufsichtsräten geführt. -- board diversity ; women CEOs ; gender …
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In the financial sector, women represent the majority of employees, but it is still men who remain in the top positions …. With women making up only 4.2 percent of the boards of the largest banks and savings banks at the end of 2012, they are …, women made up 17.8 percent of all board members at the end of 2012 (up 1.2 points), and 15.3 percent at insurance companies …
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Despite companies' commitment to more women in top-level management, at the end of 2012 only four percent of all seats … women. This corresponds to an increase of one percentage point on the previous year in both cases. Nevertheless, at the end … of the year, the proportion of women on the executive boards of the DAX 30 companies, which are at the center of public …
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This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that...
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This study compared 10 economic, demographic, and job factors between happier and less happy OECD countries based upon scores of subjective well-being (SWB), a concept commonly meaning happiness or life satisfaction. In 2009, the scores of residents in the happier OE CD countries were...
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-native wage differential at the mean and across the conditional wage distribution. Although immigrants earn more on average than … natives, mean results mask that immigrants at the bottom (top) of the distribution earn less (more) than natives. Over the … period investigated, the pro-UK-born unexplained component of the wage gap was greater at the bottom of the distribution and …
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This study estimates the impact of migrants’ remittances on households’ spending decisions in Ecuador. Applying both parametric and semiparametric techniques, we find strong evidence that remittances enhance expenditures on education, health, and housing, but decrease expenditures on food....
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, on average, women have lower education attainment than men but this educational disparity is masked among the sample of … employed men and women who tend to be well-educated. The consequences of this dramatic segmentation of labor market … of employed women, among other characteristics, tends to fully offset the gender wage gap. Not surprisingly, the returns …
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