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financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …
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financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are … females are found to allocate equal shares of their wealth to risky assets. -- Gender ; risk aversion ; financial behavior …
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risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are less … are found to allocate equal shares of their wealth to risky assets. -- Gender ; risk aversion ; financial behavior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729664
We use cross-country microdata to analyse the risk taking of households in Europe and the US. Concerning the extensive as well as the intensive margin of risky assets, European households differ substantially from US households; but also inside Europe we document substantial differences....
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This article explores the gender gap in time allocation in Europe, offering up-to-date statistics and information on … individuals devote to paid work, unpaid work, and child care, and the gender gaps in these activities, but most research refers to … single countries, and general patterns are rarely explored. Cross-country evidence on gender gaps in paid work, unpaid work …
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Since the 2008 Lehman bankruptcy, it is clearly shown that global economic and financial crises present major challenges to private households, requiring from them, a high level of shock absorption capacity. According to the old adage, "Do not put all the eggs in one basket", resilience depends,...
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This paper estimates relative risk aversion using the observed share of risky assets and characteristics of households. By assuming a participation cost of risky asset market and treating zero risky shares as a result of heterogeneous self-censoring, I estimate relative risk aversion and...
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This paper estimates relative risk aversion using the observed shares of risky assets and characteristics of households from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey of the European Central Bank. Given that the risky share is a fractional response variable belonging to [0, 1], this paper...
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This study examines how household living conditions are related to alternative allocations of control over decision-making in the household. The degree of control exerted by a particular individual over different decisions and household living conditions are taken from responses to an extensive...
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In this paper we examine the linkages between involvement into global value chains (GVCs) and the gender wage … added embodied in exports (FVA/Exp.) We augment the Mincerian regression with GVC variable and report gender wage … lower. However, the relationship between GVC and wages differs in respect to gender; women are more affected by the negative …
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