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Occupational segregation and organizational characteristics : empirical evidence for Germany
Seifert, Stefanie; Schlenker, Eva - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 25 (2014) 3, pp. 185-206
This article studies the extent of occupational gender segregation in Germany and analyzes the influence of … index. We find that the link between the level of segregation and organizational characteristics such as gender …
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The feminization of occupations and change in wages : a panel analysis of Britain, Germany and Switzerland
Murphy, Emily; Oesch, Daniel - 2015
disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …
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Maternity leave and mothers' long-term sickness absence : evidence from Germany
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Hank, Karsten - 2014
Exploiting unique German administrative data, we estimate the association between an expansion in maternity leave duration from two to six months in 1979 and mothers' post-birth long-term sickness absence over a period of three decades after childbirth. Using a regression discontinuity design,...
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Maternity Leave and Mothers' Long-Term Sickness Absence - Evidence from Germany
Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2015
Exploiting unique German administrative data, we estimate the association between an expansion in maternity leave duration from two to six months in 1979 and mothers' post-birth long-term sickness absence over a period of three decades after childbirth. Using a regression discontinuity design,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029526
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The Ethics of Accepting a Bribe : An Empirical Study of Opinion in the USA, Brazil, Germany and China
Hernandez, Teresa - 2014
demographic variables, including gender, age, ethnicity, religion, education, occupation, social class and confidence in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055212
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Global norms, regional practices : Taste-based and statistical discrimination in German asylum decision-making
Gundacker, Lidwina; Kosyakova, Yuliya; Schneider, Gerald - 2021
erroneous decisions. The model of taste-based discrimination suggests that the biases of decision-makers or their peers against … discrimination implies that a dearth of information forces impartial decision-makers to resort to stereotypes. We examine both forms … of discrimination, evaluating whether they shape asylum-seekers' chances to receive protection in Germany, currently a …
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Population aging and individual attitudes toward immigration : disentangling age, cohort and time effects
Calahorrano, Lena - 2011
In the face of rising old-age dependency ratios in industrialized countries like Germany, politicians and their electorates discuss the loosening of immigration policies as one policy option to ensure the sustainability of public social security systems. The question arises whether this policy...
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Unbalanced Sex Ratios in Germany Caused by World War II and Their Effect on Fertility : A Life Cycle Perspective
Kesternich, Iris - 2018
This paper analyses long-term effects of highly unbalanced sex ratios in Germany caused by World War II on fertility outcomes over the life cycle. By using Census data linked with individual biography data, we find that a permanent reduction in the number of men delayed women's first birth....
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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions: Empirical studies in public economics and political economy
Dorn, Florian - 2021
Florian Dorn prepared this study during his doctoral studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (LMU). The study was completed in September 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics. This dissertation contributes to the empirics of public economics and...
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The political economy of bank bailouts
Behn, Markus; Haselmann, Rainer; Kick, Thomas; Vig, Vikrant - 2016
In this paper, we examine how the institutional design affects the outcome of bank bailout decisions. In the German savings bank sector, distress events can be resolved by local politicians or a state-level association. We show that decisions by local politicians with close links to the bank are...
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