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  • Diskussionspapiere 1125 / 2011

    Does Gender Affect Investors' Appetite for Risk? Evidence from Peer-to-Peer Lending

    This study investigates the role of gender in financial risk-taking. Specifically, I ask whether female investors tend to fund less risky investment projects than males. To answer this question, I use real-life investment data collected at the largest German market for peer-to-peer lending. Investors' utility is assumed to be a function of the projects expected return and its standard deviation, whereas ...

    2011| Nataliya Barasinska
  • SOEPpapers 357 / 2011

    Gender-Specific Occupational Segregation, Glass Ceiling Effects, and Earnings in Managerial Positions: Results of a Fixed Effects Model

    The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2008. It focuses in particular on gender segregation in the labor market, that is, on the unequal distribution of women and men across different occupations and on the effects of this inequality on earnings levels and gender wage ...

    2011| Anne Busch, Elke Holst
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    Gender-Specific Occupational Segregation, Glass Ceiling Effects, and Earnings in Managerial Positions: Results of a Fixed Effects Model

    Bonn: IZA, 2011, 26 S.
    (Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 5448)
    | Anne Busch, Elke Holst
  • Externe Monographien

    Remittances and Gender: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence

    Bonn: IZA, 2011, 37 S.
    (Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 5472)
    | Elke Holst, Andrea Schäfer, Mechthild Schrooten
  • Diskussionspapiere 1143 / 2011

    The Effects of Conflict on Fertility in Rwanda

    The aim of this paper is to study the short and long-term fertility effects of mass violent conflict on different population sub-groups. The authors pool three nationally representative demographic and health surveys from before and after the genocide in Rwanda, identifying conflict exposure of the survivors in multiple ways. The analysis finds a robust effect of genocide on fertility, with a strong ...

    2011| Kati Schindler, Tilman Brück
  • SOEPpapers 402 / 2011

    Reciprocity and Workers' Tastes for Representation

    Using unique survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study examines the influence of reciprocal inclinations on workers' sorting into codetermined firms. Employees with strong negative reciprocal inclinations are more likely to work in firms with a works council while employees with strong positive reciprocal inclinations are less likely to work in such firms. We argue that these findings ...

    2011| Uwe Jirjahn, Vanessa Lange
  • Weekly Report 4 / 2011

    Twenty-Nine Women to 906 Men : Continuing Gender Inequality on the Boards of Germany's Top Companies

    The executive boards1 of Germany's 200 largest companies are still almost all male. In 2010, women occupied only 3.2% of all board seats. This negligible percentage is even lower in the top 100 and DAX30 companies, which are only 2.2% female, despite a voluntary commitment dating back to 2001, in which companies promised to give more women access to senior positions. A similar, although less extreme ...

    2011| Elke Holst, Julia Schimeta
  • Weekly Report 5 / 2011

    A Squandered Opportunity: Even after the Financial Crisis, Top Positions in Large Financial Firms Still Largely Occupied by Men

    Despite the recent financial crisis and widespread mergers in the banking industry, the German financial sector remains largely unchanged in one respect: the percentage of women on the corporate boards of Germany's banks and insurance companies was nearly as low in 2010 as in the pre-crisis years. As a result, German companies have left the potential for innovation that has been shown to accompany ...

    2011| Elke Holst, Julia Schimeta
  • SOEPpapers 363 / 2011

    Gregariousness, Interactive Jobs and Wages

    Gregariousness is an important aspect of human life with implications for labour market outcomes. The paper examines, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and associated wage differentials. Our empirical findings with samples from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) demonstrate that gregarious people more often work in ...

    2011| Friedhelm Pfeiffer, Nico Johannes Schulz
  • FINESS Working Papers 6.3 / 2010

    Are Women More Credit-Constrained than Men? Evidence from a Rising Credit Market

    This study investigates whether gender discrimination is taking place in an innovative credit market known as peer-to-peer lending. Based on the data of the largest German peer-to-peer lending platform, we observe that female borrowers pay on average higher interest rates than males despite the fact that the two gender groups do not differ with respect to their credit risk. Our analysis shows however ...

    2010| Nataliya Barasinska, Dorothea Schäfer
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