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This paper investigates individual motives to participate in rotating savings and credit associations (roscas).Detailed evidence from roscas in a Kenyan slum (Nairobi) suggests that most roscas are predominantly composed of women, particularly those living in a couple and earning an independent...
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to explain the gender differences in participation?”. In this paper, the controversy between political participation of … main-stream and gender-oriented research is discussed critically. In addition, (potential) syn-ergy effects that combine … both mainstream and gender-oriented research are presented. …
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This study focuses on gender-specific determinants of remittances in Germany. The conceptual approach considers gender … of naturalized German citizens, gender differences in the amount of remittances disappear. This can be explained by the …
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Economic research on the determinants of gender differences in economic outcomes particularly in income and consumption … lack of individual-level data. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) we find a significant ‘raw’ gender wealth gap …
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Forschungsarbeiten stellen immer wieder fest, dass Frauen im Allgemeinen und Unternehmerinnen im Besonderen weniger innovativ sind als ihre männlichen Pendants. Häufig wird dies auch in Verbindung mit einer schwächeren Unternehmensentwicklung weiblich geführter Unternehmen gebracht. Die...
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von Bedeutung: Die Note der Hochschulzugangsberechtigung, das Alter und Geschlecht des Studierenden, die Entscheidungen … Zugangsberechtigung sind mit besseren Studienabschlussnoten verbunden. Zweitens existiert kein Zusammenhang von Alter oder Geschlecht des …: First, high school records are good predictors of university grades. Second, age and gender do not influence students grade …
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number of studies it has been found that there are unresolved issues regarding gender and entrepreneurial intensions and … gender and innovative cognitive style. Therefore, the goal of our paper is to explore gender perspective on entrepreneurial …. Logistic regression revealed that entrepreneurial intentions are determined by country of origin, gender, attitudes toward …
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This paper reports on an experiment of corruption that was conducted in two treatments: one with the possibility of detection and one without. It turns out that monitoring reduces corruption through deterrence; at the same time, it destroys the intrinsic motivation for honesty. Thus the net effect...
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This paper investigates work/care policies in fifteen European welfare states during the last two decades in a comparative perspective. The main question is how certain work/care arrangements are supported through public policies of different welfare states and whether this has changed over...
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country's gender equality regime. Our empirical analysis involves household data on financial asset holdings as well as on … with the greatest degree of gender inequality according to the 2009 Global Gender Gap Report. Two stages of building a …, gender is found to have no effect in Austria, the Netherlands and Spain but does have an impact in Italy. However, even for …
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