Thema Gender

A Gendered Look at Integration: The Employment of Immigrant Women and Men in Germany: Dissertation

Weltweit migrieren Männer und Frauen, ihre Arbeitsmarktintegration ist jedoch grundsätzlich verschieden. Erklärungen hierfür sind bislang unzureichend. Daher entwickelt diese Dissertation ein Konzept zu Migration, Geschlecht und Erwerbstätigkeit, dessen Kernargument ist, dass sich Geschlechterunterschiede über die Immigration reproduzieren. Die Papiere der Dissertation testen drei Mechanismen, die ...

Working Time Mismatch and Job Satisfaction: The Role of Employees’ Time Autonomy and Gender

Evidence shows that working time mismatch, i.e. the difference between actual and desired working hours, is negatively related to employees’ job satisfaction. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the potential moderating effect of working time autonomy on this relation and we also consider the corresponding role of gender. First, individual fixed effects panel estimations ...

Personality Maturation and Personality Relaxation: Differences of the Big Five Personality Traits in the Years around the Beginning and Ending of Working Life

Objective: At work, people are confronted with clear behavioral expectations. In line with the Social Investment Principle, the beginning and ending of working life might thus promote changes in personality traits that are relevant at work (e.g., Conscientiousness). Method: Based on the data from the Socio- Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we examined nuanced differences of the Big Five personality traits ...

Gekommen, um (unterrepräsentiert) zu bleiben? Frauenanteil im Deutschen Bundestag stagniert seit über 20 Jahren bei einem Drittel

Die 16-jährige Kanzlerinnenschaft Angela Merkels, in der erstmalig eine Frau eine Bundesregierung führte, wurde vielfach als Meilenstein für Frauen in der Politik gewürdigt. Dies hat sich jedoch nicht in der parlamentarischen Repräsentation von Frauen niedergeschlagen. Der Frauenanteil im Bundestag stagniert seit 1998 bei etwa einem Drittel. Während Grüne (rund 59 Prozent) und Linke (knapp 54 Prozent) ...

Höherer Frauenanteil im Bundestag ist vor allem eine Frage des politischen Willens: Interview

How Causal Is Separation? Lessons Learnt from Endogenous Switching Regression Models for Single Mothers’ Economic Strain in Germany

Single mothers often experience precarious financial conditions. However, it is not fully understood to what extent separation is the cause of these conditions versus being their consequence. Estimating an endogenous switching regression model based on a sample of 626 separated and 5,525 non-separated mothers drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2018, we disentangle the roles of causation ...

Financial Literacy: Thai Middle-Class Women Do Not Lag Behind

This research studies the stylized fact of a “gender gap” in that women tend to have lower financial literacy than men. Our data which samples middle-class people from Bangkok does not show a gender gap for those with at least minimum wage earnings. This result is not explained by men’s low financial literacy, nor by women’s high income and good education. Rather, country characteristics may influence ...

Financial Literacy and Intra-household Decision Making: Evidence from Rwanda

Research has consistently shown that women’s involvement in household decision making positively affects household outcomes such as nutrition and education of children. Is financial literacy a determinant for women to participate in intra-household decision making? Using data on savings groups in Rwanda, we examine this relationship and show that women with higher financial literacy are more involved ...

Soziale Interaktion und geschlechtsspezifisches Wettbewerbsverhalten

Entscheidende Charakteristika einer modernen Dienstleistungs- und damit auch beruflichen „Ellenbogen“-Gesellschaft sind interpersonelle Kommunikation und Interaktion von Angesicht zu Angesicht– selbst in einer digitalen Welt. Studien im Bereich Personalgewinnung zeigen, dass Bewerberinnen und Bewerber im persönlichen Gespräch häufig besser bewertet werden als in fernmündlichen Gesprächen via Telefon ...

Grading in Secondary Schools in Germany: The Impact of Social Origin and Gender

In the German school system, grades are the essential means of performance feedback and assignment. However, little research has been conducted on the factors that determine grades in addition to competencies, and existing findings are poorly replicated. Using data from the representative IQB Trends in Student Performance 2015 survey, our analysis combined a variety of personal and structural characteristics ...