Despite considerable variation in gender-role attitudes across contexts and its claimed influence on female labour supply, studies provide little support for a contextual gender-role attitude effect. In this study, we reassess the contextual gender-role attitude effect on female labour supply because earlier studies are hampered by two shortcomings: (a) they are cross-nationally comparative, which ...
According to a study based on SOEP data, thanks to the increasing freedom to choose between parenthood and gainful employment and to organize childcare individually, mothers and fathers today are more satisfied with their lives than parents 20 or 30 years ago. The study was conducted by a research group led by Swiss sociologist Klaus Preisner. Preisner, Klaus, Franz Neuberger, Ariane Bertogg, ...
Market participants are generally in agreement that the coronavirus pandemic will have a severe impact on the European economy, but it is difficult to predict the length and extent of the pandemic’s effects. However, using the yield curves of corporate bonds, we can reach some preliminary conclusions about the impact of the pandemic. The expectations of financial market participants are revealed in ...
