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DIW Women Executives Barometer 2018: the gender quota for supervisory boards is effective, development on executive boards has almost reached a standstill

DIW Berlin has analyzed the development of the proportion of women in over 500 businesses – There is no indication that the gender quota is affecting executive boards – Banks and insurance companies in particular need to catch up –

DIW Weekly Report 3 / 2018

Top-Decision Making Bodies of Large Businesses: Gender Quota for Supervisory Boards Is Effective—Development Is Almost at a Standstill for Executive Boards

The gender quota for supervisory boards in Germany is effective: by the end of 2017, the proportion of women on the supervisory boards of a good 100 companies that are subject to the quota had risen to 30 percent—three percentage points more than i

DIW Weekly Report 3 / 2018

Financial Sector: Proportion of Women in Top Decision-Making Bodies Is Increasing More Slowly Than at the Beginning of the Decade—Equal Gender Representation Is Still a Long Way Off

Over the past year, the proportion of women serving on the executive and supervisory boards of the top 100 largest banks in Germany rose slightly to almost nine and 23 percent, respectively. However, growth has come to a halt in the 60 largest ...

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How to Measure and Proxy Permanent Income: Evidence from Germany and the U.S.

Permanent income (PI) is an enduring concept in the social sciences and is highly relevant to the study of inequality. Nevertheless, there has been insufficient progress in measuring PI. We calculate a novel measure of PI with the German Socio ...

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Comparing Observed and Unobserved Components of Childhood: Evidence From Finnish Register Data on Midlife Mortality From Siblings and Their Parents

In this study, we argue that the long arm of childhood that determines adult mortality should be thought of as comprising an observed part and its unobserved counterpart, reflecting the observed socioeconomic position of individuals and their parents

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Arbeitsmarktpotenzial, Qualifikationsniveau, berufliche Perspektiven Geflüchteter

Monographien

Welfare Stigma in the Lab: Evidence of Social Signaling

A puzzle of the modern welfare state is that a large fraction of social benefits is not takenup. Using a laboratory experiment, we present evidence that stigmatization through publicexposure causally reduces the take-up of a redistributive transfer .

Pressemitteilung

Deutsch-französisches Reformkonzept für die Europäische Währungsunion: Marktdisziplin und Risikoteilung unter einem Hut

Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) und des ifo Instituts - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V. Eine Gruppe von 14 Ökonominnen und

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Franco-German proposal for a reform of the European monetary union: building a euro area with more risk-sharing and more discipline

Joint press release of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich Fourteen economists from France and Germany, including Marcel Fratzscher ..

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Nachgeforscht: bei Charlotte Bartels über die Einkommensverteilung

Erstmals in Deutschland wird die Einkommensverteilung über einen Zeitraum von rund 140 Jahren präsentiert. Über alle politischen und wirtschaftlichen Turbulenzen des 20. Jahrhunderts hinweg hat sich vor allem der Einkommensanteil der ...