Thema Gender

Wealth Creators or Inheritors? Unpacking the Gender Wealth Gap from Bottom to Top and Young to Old

There is growing interest in understanding how gender influences the accumulation of wealth. While prior studies focused on labor-related determinants, our research focuses on inheritances and gifts. Using unique survey data that oversamples the top 1% of wealth holders in Germany, we show that the gender wealth gap is small for individuals up to age 40, then widens, and declines for those past retirement ...

Chancengleichheit muss auch für junge Männer gelten

The Impact of Student Aid Eligibility on Higher Education Applications

This study examines how student aid eligibility influences application decisions to higher education using administrative data from France. We study the impact of a change in income thresholds for aid eligibility. We find that aid eligibility did not have a uniform effect on students’ applications but varied by gender and academic performance. Highperforming male students shifted their First-Ranked ...

Einstellungen zu Geschlechterrollen sind in Deutschland im Laufe der Zeit egalitärer geworden

Gesellschaftliche Einstellungen zur Rolle von Männern und Frauen am Arbeitsmarkt, in der Familie, Bildung oder Politik unterliegen einem zeitlichen Wandel. Berechnungen auf der Grundlage von Daten des World Value Survey zeigen, dass das gesellschaftliche Rollenbild der Frau in den letzten Jahrzehnten in Deutschland deutlich moderner geworden ist. In der letzten Befragungswelle lehnten mehr als 80 Prozent ...

Parental Leave and Discrimination in the Labor Market

Promoting fathers to take parental leave is seen as a promising way to advancegender equality. However, there is still a very limited understanding of its impact on fathers’ labor market outcomes. We conducted a correspondence study to analyze whether fathers who take parental leave face discrimination during the hiring process in three different occupations. Fathers who took parental leave in a female-dominated ...

Child Penalties in Labour Market Skills

Child penalties in labour market outcomes are well-documented: after childbirth, mothers’ employment and earnings drop persistently compared to fathers. Beyond gender norms, a potential driver could be the loss in labour market skills due to mothers’ longer employment interruptions. This paper estimates child penalties in adult cognitive skills by adapting the pseudo-panel approach to a single cross-section ...

Matching on Gender and Sexual Orientation

We study the mating patterns of non-heterosexual individuals, who represent a significant and increasing portion of the population, particularly among the youth. We estimate a multidimensional matching model of the marriage market where partner’s gender is endogenously chosen conditional on the agent’s sexual orientation, and is subject to trade-offs that depend on both the agents’ preferences and ...

Early Childcare Expansion and Maternal Health

This paper estimates the causal effect of increased availability of early childcare on maternal health. We focus on a substantial expansion of childcare for children under three years in West Germany from 2006 to 2019. By matching county-level childcare attendance rates with individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we are able to quantify the effects of this expansion on maternal ...

Division of Paid and Care Work Between Parents: Reality Often Differs Greatly from the Ideals

On average, mothers and fathers in Germany divide paid work and care work very unequally. Mothers often only work part time, which results in further gender inequalities in the labor market. A current analysis of data from the German Family Demography Panel Study (FReDA) shows that the population’s attitudes toward the ideal division of work between couples with children under 12 are considerably more ...

Aufteilung von Erwerbs- und Sorgearbeit bei Eltern: Wunsch und Wirklichkeit liegen teils weit auseinander

Mütter und Väter teilen sich die Erwerbs- und Sorgearbeit in Deutschland im Durchschnitt sehr ungleich auf. Frauen gehen oftmals nur in Teilzeit einer Erwerbstätigkeit nach – weitere geschlechtsspezifische Ungleichheiten auf dem Arbeitsmarkt sind die Folge. Aktuelle Auswertungen von Daten des familiendemografischen Panels FReDA zeigen, dass die Vorstellungen über die ideale Aufteilung der Erwerbsarbeit ...