study, we go a step further by also looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on differences in career … sector and find evidence that personality traits do influence the promotion probability even though their impact is rather … the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) in 2007 show significant differences in personality traits. But multivariate …

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large representative German household … panel, we investigate to what extent personality traits, human capital, and the employment history influence the start …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household … panel, we investigate to what extent personality traits, human capital, and the employment history influence the start …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an …

-level modeling techniques, this paper explores the macro-level determinants of the gender poverty gap in the ten post …-socialist European Union member states. In dialogue with the literature on the impact of economic development on gender inequality in … Asia and Latin America, we find that fast-paced, foreign capital led economic growth is associated with a larger gender …

There are large international differences in the gender pay gap. In some developed countries in 2010-2012, women were … education and experience and commonly work in different industries and occupations, multiple factors can influence the gender … to education, experience, and occupational wage differentials. Systems of wage compression narrow the gender pay gap but …

Women are often less willing than men to compete, even in tasks where there is no gender gap in performance. Also, many … explain the gender gap in competitiveness. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured with salivary cortisol and … voluntary competition. We find that while the mandatory competition does increase stress levels, there is no gender difference …