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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
available data. We find that firms with a higher share of older workers have significantly lower proportions of R&D outlays in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294455
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Does a Better Job Match Make Women Happier? Work Orientations, Work-Care Choices and Subjective Well-Being in Germany
Muffels, Ruud; Kemperman, Bauke - 2011
The study examines the effects of work orientations and work-leisure choices alongside the effect of genes or personality traits on subjective well-being (SWB). The former effects are assumed to be mediated by the match between women's preferred and actual number of working hours indicating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601003
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Erwerbstätigenpotenzial besser ausschöpfen
Rainer, Helmut; Peichl, Andreas - In: ifo Schnelldienst 74 (2021) 07, pp. 06-10
Die sozialen Sicherungssysteme müssen reformiert werden, damit sie im demografischen Wandel finanzierbar bleiben. Es gilt, das Erwerbspersonenpotenzial auf dem Arbeitsmarkt besser auszuschöpfen. Durch eine Verbesserung der Kindertagesbetreuung und den Umbau des Ehegattensplittings sollte die...
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Der „kleine“ Unterschied: Integration von Frauen mit und ohne Kind in den Arbeitsmarkt
Baum, Katja - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 19 (2012) 6, pp. 14-21
Während das unterschiedliche Erwerbsverhalten von Männern und Frauen häufig Gegenstand von Diskussionen ist, wird ein Vergleich des Erwerbsverhaltens von Frauen mit und ohne Kind nur selten untersucht. In diesem Artikel werden die Unterschiede bzgl. des Arbeitsumfangs von Frauen mit und ohne...
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Trapped at home: The effect of mothers' temporary labor market exits on their subsequent work career
Drange, Nina; Rege, Mari - 2012
This paper investigates how mothers' decision to stay at home with young children affects their subsequent work careers. Identification is based on the introduction of the Cash-for-Care program in Norway in 1998, which increased mothers' incentives to withdraw from the labor market when their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282061
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Do women top managers help women advance? A panel study using EEO-1 records
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - 2012
The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282267
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Age and gender differences in job opportunities
Humpert, Stephan - 2012
opportunities for newly hired older male and female workers. It is an enriched replication study of Hutchens (ILRR,1988), who showed … that firms employ older workers, but hire them less. I use a rich dataset for West Germany with information for almost … related segregation exists. While newly hired workers in the age groups of 18 to 34 and 35 to 54 are quiet similar distributed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286585
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Do women top managers help women advance? A panel study using EEO-1 records
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - 2011
The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of management ranks of firms help reduce barriers to advancement in the workplace faced by women. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287854
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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
available data. We find that firms with a higher share of older workers have significantly lower proportions of R&D outlays in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291425
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Beyond the classroom : using title IX to measure the return to high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003938718