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Elite education, mass education, and the transition to modern growth
Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2015
We propose an innovation-driven growth model in which education is determined by family background and cognitive ability. We show that compulsory schooling can move a society from elite education to mass education, which then triggers market R&D. This means that our model rationalizes two...
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Elite education, mass education, and the transition to modern growth
Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2014
For most of human history there existed a well-educated and innovative elite whereas mass education, market R&D, and high growth are phenomena of the modern period. In order to explain these phenomena we propose an innovation-driven growth model for the very long run in which the...
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School attendance and child labor : a model of collective behavior
Strulik, Holger - 2010
This paper theoretically investigates how community approval or disapproval affects school attendance and child labor and how aggregate behavior of the community feeds back towards the formation and persistence of an anti- (or pro-) schooling norm. The proposed community-model continues to take...
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School attendance and child labor : a model of collective behavior
Strulik, Holger - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 11 (2013) 2, pp. 246-277
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School Attendance and Child Labor - A Model of Collective Behavior
Strulik, Holger - 2014
This paper investigates how community attitudes affect school attendance and child labor and how aggregate behavior of the community feeds back towards the formation and persistence of an anti- (or pro-) schooling norm. The proposed community-model continues to take aggregate and idiosyncratic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014185409
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Spitzengremien großer Unternehmen: Hartnäckigkeit männlicher Strukturen lässt kaum Platz für Frauen
Holst, Elke; Schimeta, Julia - In: DIW Wochenbericht 79 (2012) 3, pp. 3-12
Das Ziel, mehr Frauen in Spitzengremien der Wirtschaft zu berücksichtigen, findet sowohl in der Öffentlichkeit als auch in der Politik immer stärkere Beachtung. Die Forderungen nach einer Frauenquote und die öffentlichkeitswirksame Bestellung von vier Frauen in die Vorstände der...
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An den Frauen vorbei: Frauenanteil in Spitzengremien des Finanzsektors stagniert
Holst, Elke; Schimeta, Julia - In: DIW Wochenbericht 79 (2012) 3, pp. 14-22
Bei der vergleichsweise hohen Fluktuation in den Spitzengremien des Finanzsektors in Deutschland in Folge der Finanzkrise wurde die Chance verpasst, für eine Erhöhung des Anteils der dort vertretenen Frauen zu sorgen. Im Jahr 2011 lag der Frauenanteil in Vorständen auf einem ähnlich geringen...
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A Squandered Opportunity: Even after the Financial Crisis, Top Positions in Large Financial Firms Still Largely Occupied by Men
Holst, Elke; Schimeta, Julia - In: Weekly Report 7 (2011) 5, pp. 29-36
that has been shown to accompany a significant increase of women in top management untapped. Although more than half of all … has not changed the gender divide in top management. The percentage of women in board positions in Germany's largest 100 … equality in top management: with only 2% women on their executive boards and 16.5% on their supervisory boards, these state …
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Twenty-Nine Women to 906 Men : Continuing Gender Inequality on the Boards of Germany's Top Companies
Holst, Elke; Schimeta, Julia - In: Weekly Report 7 (2011) 4, pp. 19-28
near-term increase in the proportion of women in senior management. …
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Financial Sector: Share of Women in Top Decision-Making Bodies Remains Low
Holst, Elke; Kirsch, Anja - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 4, pp. 49-58
At the end of 2014, women were no better represented on the top decision-making bodies of enterprises in the financial sector than the previous year. The share of women on the executive boards of the 100 largest banks and savings banks remained at an average of almost seven percent and on the...
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