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communities in which those individuals live. A project on ‘Economy, Gender, and Social Capital in the German Demographic … “Industrious Revolution”: Consumption, Gender and Social Capital in a German Developing Economy, 1600-1900’ is using marriage and …
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In Germany, it has become conventional wisdom that the economic uncertainty associated fixed-term employment contracts prevents young couples from realizing their desire to have children. From a research perspective, it is however far from clear whether fixed-term contracts are the obstacle to...
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factor for lagged development in verbal skills, social skills, and activities of daily living. Among girls, weight generally …
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This paper analyzes the wage development of mothers interrupting their careers, in comparison to the wages of men who …
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Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...
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We investigate whether the Big Five Personality Dimensions contribute to explaining gender and migrant wage gaps by … using a linked employer-employee dataset. We expand the scarce literature concerning personality traits and gender wage gaps … associations between the Big Five and wages. The magnitude of this relationship varies across the gender and the migratory status …
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disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …
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The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller labor markets have a higher risk of working in jobs for which they are overqualified. This stems from the problem of dual job search for couples which is much more difficult to...
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gender when these choices are taken. Our results corroborate the hypothesis that teacher gender matters in this regard, and … boys when having a same-sex teacher in this subject in grade 10, teacher gender matters only for girls with respect to …
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This paper uses evidence from German-speaking central Europe to address open questions about the Consumer and Industrious Revolutions. Did they happen outside the early-developing, North Atlantic economies? Were they shaped by the “social capital” of traditional institutions? How were they...
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