Auch im vergangenen Jahr ist der Frauenanteil in den obersten Entscheidungsgremien der größten Unternehmen in Deutschland gestiegen. In den Vorständen der 200 umsatzstärksten Unternehmen Deutschlands sind mittlerweile gut 19 Prozent aller Vorstandsmitglieder Frauen, bei den 40 größten börsennotierten Unternehmen sogar fast 26 Prozent. Auch der Finanzsektor hat diesbezüglich aufgeholt. Das gesetzliche ...
Frauen sind in hohen Führungspositionen privatwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen in Deutschland nach wie vor unterrepräsentiert. Dafür gibt es zahlreiche Ursachen – eine davon sind geschlechterstereotype Zuschreibungen von Fähigkeiten und Eigenschaften, die bei hohen Führungspositionen eine große Rolle spielen. So werden Frauen nach wie vor typischerweise Eigenschaften wie Fürsorglichkeit und Familienorientierung ...
In 2024, the share of women on the top decision-making boards of the largest companies in Germany increased. A solid 19 percent of all executive board members at the 200 largest companies are now women, and almost 26 percent of members at the 40 largest listed companies are women. The financial sector is also catching up in this regard. Moreover, legal requirements, such as the inclusion requirement ...
This paper estimates the impact of financial incentives on retirement decision in France for cohorts of men retiring between 1994 to 2012. During these two decades, a number of pension reforms took place, all aiming to achieve financial balance in the context of increasing life expectancy. These reforms strengthened incentives to retire later, either by ofoffering increased pension benefit for later ...
This study explores how gender and age interact in shaping beliefs about fair pay through a factorial survey experiment conducted with German employees. Respondents evaluated hypothetical worker descriptions varying in age, gender, and earnings. While no gender gap in fair earnings was found for the youngest hypothetical workers, a significant gap favoring men emerged with increasing age. This suggests ...
This paper studies and compares the effect of different adverse life events -- job loss, disability and health shocks, divorce and spousal death -- on individuals' income trajectories. We use a harmonized design across events in terms of methodology and data: matching difference-in-difference with exhaustive Dutch administrative registers. We assess the effect of adverse events on different...
This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the incidence of severe health shocks at the workplace level. Using rich linked employer-employee data from Germany and an instrumental variable leveraging policy variation, I show that firms with a higher concentration of foreign workers experience lower rates of long-term sickness among their employees. Decomposing the rates by gender and worker...