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This paper investigates the digital gender divide (DGD) in Germany by analyzing gendered patterns of digital technology … close the gender pay gap (GPG). On the contrary, digital involvement yields greater wage returns for men than for women …
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's decision making has the potential to foster workers' political participation in civic society. Our study for Germany indeed …, separate estimations by gender show a positive association between works councils and political interest only for men, but not … for women. Traditional gender roles and disproportionate responsibility for family may make it difficult for women to be …
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did in 2017. The pandemic more than doubled the gender loneliness gap: women were lonelier than men in 2017, and the 2017 …
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We use Canadian linked employer-employee data to examine gender differences in probability, duration, and intensity of … evidence that gender gaps in training in the for-profit sector are driven by lower probabilities of accepting training offers …, child or family commitments, weaker labour market attachment, or worker self-selection. We also find that gender differences …
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these issues and investigate potential gender differences, considering both instantaneous feelings and life satisfaction. …
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We examine supply-side determinants of transition from the wage and salary sector to self-employment of women and men living Poland. The empirical analysis is made possible due to a unique and under explored longitudinal survey - Social Diagnosis - that contains rare indicators such as job...
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We study whether women and men cope with job loss differently. We use 2006-2017 Dutch administrative monthly microdata and a quasi-experimental design involving job displacement because of firm bankruptcy. We find that displaced women are more likely than displaced men to take up a flexible job...
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The objective of the study is to investigate the changing role of explanatory factors of wealth and the gender wealth … gap in Germany over the period 2002-2012 using individual level microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The … role of permanent income is decreasing due to a reduction in the gender difference in permanent income and in gender …
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analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. If control variables are added, estimates are split by gender and different effects of over- and underweight people are … public sector the sign of the coefficient changes. The results for eastern Germany are different with respect to satisfaction …
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positions differ in their perceived work-to-family conflicts (WFC), considering the mediating role of gender specific job … opportunities. Referring conflicting theoretical arguments, we hypothesize that in Germany - as a conservative welfare state - women …
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