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Social Security and Gender : Brazilian and World Practices
Beltrao, Kaizo I.; Novellino, Maria S.; Barreto de … - 2002
Social security is concerned on easing the impact of contingencies that lead to capacity loss for generating income. There are, however, conceptual differences between genders with respect to social security contributions and benefits. This text is concerned with equality and specificity in the...
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Identifying and overcoming gender barriers in tech : a field experiment on inaccurate statistical discrimination
Feld, Jan; Ip, Edwin; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Vecci, Joseph - 2022
discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender … evidence that statistical discrimination can be mitigated. In two treatments, in which we provide assessors with additional …
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Does education predict gender role attitudes? : evidence from European datasets
Deole, Sumit S.; Zeydanli, Tugba - 2021
This paper presents the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of individuals' education on their attitudes towards traditional gender roles in Europe. We employ two national panel datasets from the UK and Switzerland and a repeated cross-sectional dataset with information from 13 Western...
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Does Education Predict Gender Role Attitudes? : Evidence from European Datasets
Deole, Sumit S.; Zeydanli, Tugba - 2021
This paper presents the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of individuals' education on their attitudes towards traditional gender roles in Europe. We employ two national panel datasets from the UK and Switzerland and a repeated cross-sectional dataset with information from 13 Western...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239881
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While gender quotas for top positions in the private sector differ across EU countries, they are effective overall
Kirsch, Anja; Sondergeld, Virginia; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 12 (2022) 3/4, pp. 32-39
This second report in the DIW Berlin Women Executives Barometer 2022 explores the designs and effects of gender quotas across Europe, coming to the conclusion that they are an effective instrument for increasing the share of women in top positions at large companies. Furthermore, the quotas...
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Does education predict gender role attitudes? : evidence from European datasets
Deole, Sumit S.; Zeydanli, Tugba - 2021
This paper presents the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of individuals' education on their attitudes towards traditional gender roles. We employ two national panel datasets from the UK and Switzerland and a repeated cross-sectional dataset with information from 13 Western European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493866
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Binding quotas can help achieve gender equality in top decision-making bodies
Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 16/18, pp. 154-155
Gender equality is a deciding factor for economic growth in the European Union. Proportion of women on executive committees of publicly traded companies is an important component of gender equality policies. Proportion of women on executive committees is significantly higher in member states...
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Gender quotas in a European comparison : tough sanctions most effective
Arndt, Paula; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 38, pp. 337-344
Women remain significantly underrepresented in the top decision-making bodies in the private sector. Over the past few years, increasingly more European countries have introduced statutory gender quotas to combat this underrepresentation. Other European countries have instead relied on voluntary...
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Gender quotas in the boardroom : new evidence from Germany
Fedorets, Alexandra; Gibert, Anna; Burow, Norma - 2019
We examine the introduction of a gender quota law in Germany, mandating a minimum 30% of the underrepresented gender on the supervisory boards of a particular type of firms. We exploit the fact that Germany has a two-tier corporate system consisting of the affected supervisory boards and...
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Financial sector : proportion of women in top decision-making bodies is increasing more slowly than at the beginning of the decade : equal gender representation is still a long way...
Holst, Elke; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 3, pp. 32-45
Over the past year, the proportion of women serving on the executive and supervisory boards of the top 100 largest banks in Germany rose slightly to almost nine and 23 percent, respectively. However, growth has come to a halt in the 60 largest insurance companies: on both executive and...
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