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Externe Monographien
Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent personality traits, humancapital, and the employment history influence the start-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that thehigherrisk aversion among women explains a large ...
München:
CESifo,
2014,
38 S.
(CESifo Working Papers ; 4803)
| Marco Caliendo, Frank Fossen, Alexander Kritikos, Miriam Wetter
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent personality traits, human capital, and the employment history influence the start-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk aversion among women explains a large ...
In:
CESifo Economic Studies
61 (2015), 1, S. 202-238
| Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos, Miriam Wetter
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The career concerns literature predicts that incentives for effort decline as beliefs about ability become more precise (Holmström, 1982, 1999). In contrast, we show that effort can increase with belief precision when agents compete for promotions to better paid jobs that are assigned on the basis of perceived abilities. In this case, an intermediate level of precision provides the strongest incentive ...
In:
The Economic Journal
125 (2015), 589, S. 1952-1963
| Jeanin Miklós-Thal, Hannes Ullrich
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This study examines the importance of prenatal characteristics of men and women in couples for how they change their time spent on housework and paid work after thetransition to parenthood. We focus on both partners' earnings and gender role attitudes as explanatory factors. Previous research explored the importance of women's relative income and both partners' gender role attitudes for the extent ...
In:
European Sociological Review
29 (2013), 1, S. 74-85
| Pia S. Schober
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SOEPpapers 446 / 2012
To explore single mothers' labor market participation we analyze specific circumstances and dynamics in their life courses. We focus on the question which individual and institutional factors determine both professional advancement and professional descent. Due to dynamics in women's life course identifying and analyzing restrictions and interruptions of employment requires a longitudinal research ...
2012| Mine Hancioglu, Bastian Hartmann
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DIW Economic Bulletin 4 / 2012
The aim of recruiting more women into top-level management positions in business is attracting increasing interest among the general public and policy-makers alike. Calls for a quota for women and the widely publicized appointment of four women to the executive boards of DAX 30 companies in 2011 still does not detract from the fact that women continue to play a marginal role in the most important economic ...
2012| Elke Holst, Julia Schimeta
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DIW Economic Bulletin 4 / 2012
2012
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Over recent decades, the rise in female labor market participation and the increase in "atypical" employment arrangements have brought about a steady decline in traditional "male breadwinner" households and an increasing number of dual-earner households. Against this backdrop, the present paper investigates how different household contexts' ranging from traditional "male breadwinner" households to ...
In:
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
30 (2012), 2, S. 219-232
| Stefan Liebig, Carsten Sauer, Jürgen Schupp
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Diskussionspapiere 1183 / 2012
Starting with a comparative assessment of different welfare regimes and political economies from the perspective of gender awareness and "pro-women" policies, this paper identifies the determinants of cross-national variation in women's chances of being in a high-status occupation in twelve West European countries. Special emphasis is given to size and structure of the service sector, including share ...
2012| Andrea Schäfer, Ingrid Tucci, Karin Gottschall
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SOEPpapers 422 / 2011
This study investigates how the duration of the work interruption and the labor market status of mothers upon their return affect the division of housework in couples after a birth. By observing several parental leave policy reforms in Britain and West-Germany, this research also explores how extended leave entitlements for mothers influence the division of housework. The analysis uses multilevel multiprocess ...
2011| Pia S. Schober