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Women still earn less than men on average in Germany. This applies to management positions even more: between 2010 and …
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male and female workers in West Germany. The analysis distinguishes different types of career absence: unemployment …
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With its introduction in 2015, the statutory minimum wage in Germany intends to benefit primarily low-wage workers … decrease by 2.46 and 6.34 percentage points respectively in the West and East of Germany after 2015. Applying counterfactual … decrease in discriminatory remuneration structures in the West of Germany due to the introduced wage floor. …
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We review recent studies on management practices and their consequences for women in the workplace. First, the High … methodological challenges: (i) how to measure management practices; (ii) how to account for endogeneity of management practices; and …
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Why are there so few women in finance and even less managing funds? There is a major discrepancy between the number of female and male fund managers worldwide. The aim of this paper is to ascertain if gender is a contributing factor for fund managers performance. This is examined through...
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Why are there so few women in finance and even fewer managing funds? There is a major discrepancy between the number of female and male fund managers worldwide. The aim of this paper is to ascertain if gender is a contributing factor to fund managers’ performance. This is examined through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344115
Weekly lotteries determine which politicians ask the UK Prime Minister a question in front of a male-dominated, packed, and noisy chamber. Women are 12% less likely to submit questions than same-cohort men, and this gap does not close with lottery-induced experience asking a question, or with...
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This paper explains the increasing popularity of social entrepreneurship and analyzes its company law consequences. Faced with tight budgets, governments are looking to the private sector to develop businesses that serve the interests of the public. Social entrepreneurship is gaining momentum as...
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Although the EU has been influential in the development of equalities legislation, Brexit would be unlikely to put these rights in jeopardy. Historically, the UK has led the way when it comes to women’s rights and workplace and family protections, and this will surely continue. The worry that...
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This paper uses data from the BRFSS over the period 2014-2019 to analyse the impact of removing surgical requirements to change legal gender. In many states transgender people are forced to undergo surgical procedures if they wish to change their gender on ID documents, which can be invasive,...
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