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Gender differences in career progression : does the effect of children capture low work effort? ; conference paper
Kunze, Astrid - 2013
This study exploits longitudinal employer-employee matched data to investigate gender differences in the probability to … workers with high effort levels above the 60th residual earnings percentile, we find large gender differences in promotion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344629
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Stepping forward : personality traits, choice of profession, and the decision to become self-employed ; conference paper
Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina - 2013
We argue that entrepreneurial choice proceeds in at least two steps, with vocational choice nearly always preceding choice of employment status, whether that be self-employment or dependent employment. Since the two decisions are interrelated, analysis of entrepreneurial choice as a single act...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342188
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Unobservable, but unimportant? : the influence of personality traits (and other usually unobserved variables) for the estimation of treatment effects ; conference paper
Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2014 - Preliminary version, this draft: February 28, 2014
, which appear as relevant for the participation probabilities, do not matter for the estimation of effects of the programs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487253
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Do women have more shame than men? : an experiment on self-assessment and the shame of overestimating oneself ; conference paper
Ludwig, Sandra; Thoma, Carmen - 2013
they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do not seem to be similarly shame-averse. This gender difference may be due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340968
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How does socio-economic status shape a child's personality? : conference paper
Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; … - 2014 - November 11, 2013
's initial conditions at birth, and family structure. Personality profiles that vary systematically with parental SES off er an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480667
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Like brother, like sister? : the importance of family background for cognitive and non-cognitive skills ; conference paper
Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2013
family background for skill formation. The study is based on a large representative German dataset, which includes IQ test … Maximum Likelihood (REML) model we find substantial influences of family background on the skills of both brothers and sisters … in cognitive skills are higher than 0.50, indicating that more than half of the inequality can be explained by family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336812
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Is the equal sharing of market work and family duties hampered by financial means or constraints? : evidence from a structural labor supply model with involuntary unemployment and...
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Neumann, Michael; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014 - Preliminary version: February 19, 2014
This paper analyzes the question why desired and actual sharing of market work and family duties among parents with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484402
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From gross wages to net household income : a distributional analysis of the gender wage gap ; conference paper
Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - 2014
Numerous studies analyze gender wage differences focusing on gross hourly wages. The analysis of differences in gross … is often attributed to discrimination. While there is plenty evidence that the gender (gross) wage gap is a persistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487268
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International migration of couples : conference paper
Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - 2014
We present theory on international migration of dual-earner couples, and test it using Danish register data. Our model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates is increasing in the earnings of the primary earner. The effect of the earnings of the secondary earner may go either way....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483819
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Closing the gender pay gap and individual task profiles : women's advantages from technological progress ; conference paper
Fedorets, Alexandra - 2014
In the present paper I provide novel evidence on the formation of the gender pay gap with respect to directly measured …-level task information, I provide detailed evidence on the evolution of task contents and their gender-specific remuneration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483888