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  • 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
  • Diskussionspapiere 1099 / 2011

    Remittances and Gender: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence

    In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained theoretically by way of intra-family contracts. We develop a basic formal concept that includes aspects of the transnational network and derive hypotheses from it. For our empirical investigation, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2006. Our findings ...

    2011| Elke Holst, Andrea Schäfer, Mechthild Schrooten
  • SOEPpapers 356 / 2011

    Why Men Might "Have It All" While Women Still Have to Choose between Career and Family in Germany

    This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self-reported subjective well-being was associated with occupying a high-level managerial position in the labour market, compared with employment in non-leadership, non-high-level managerial positions, unemployment, and non-labour market participation. Our results indicated that a clear hierarchy ...

    2011| Eileen Trzcinski, Elke Holst
  • SOEPpapers 354 / 2011

    Remittances and Gender: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence

    In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained theoretically by way of intra-family contracts. We develop a basic formal concept that includes aspects of the transnational network and derive hypotheses from it. For our empirical investigation, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2006. Our findings ...

    2011| Elke Holst, Andrea Schäfer, Mechthild Schrooten
  • Diskussionspapiere 1101 / 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
  • Other refereed essays

    Germany's Next Top Manager: Does Personality Explain the Gender Career Gap?

    Many studies have focused on the influence of human capital and other 'objective' factors on career achievement. In our study, we go a step further by also looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on differences in career chances. For the first time - to our knowledge - we compare managers and other white-collar employees in Germany's private sector and find evidence that personality ...

    In: Management Revue 22 (2011), 3, S. 240-273 | Simon Fietze, Elke Holst, Verena Tobsch
  • 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
  • SOEPpapers 399 / 2011

    Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment

    Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in their life satisfaction when they retire. These results are robust to controlling for changes in other life ...

    2011| Clemens Hetschko, Andreas Knabe, Ronnie Schöb
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