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Success despite starting out at a disadvantage: What helps second-generation migrants in France and Germany?

Tucci, Ingrid; Jossin, Ariane; Keller, Carsten; … - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 1 (2011) 5, pp. 3-11

The educational and employment trajectories of migrant children in France and Germany are extremely diverse. The few successful ones dominate the public eye. Yet successful biographies of young adults with a migration background are in no way a negligible exception. However, the picture is...

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Income, social support networks, life satisfaction: Lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in Germany

Kroh, Martin; Kühne, Simon; Kipp, Christian; Richter, David - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 7 (2017) 33/35, pp. 335-345

Towards the very end of this legislative period, a cross-caucus parliamentary majority gave same-sex marriage the green light - progress for the legal equality of homosexuals in Germany. This report focuses on the life situations of homosexual and bisexual people in Germany. The careers they...

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Private spending on children's education: Low-income families pay relatively more

Schröder, Carsten; Spieß, C. Katharina; Storck, Johanna - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 8, pp. 113-123

Education is not financed solely by the taxpayer-many institutions and activities require payment of top-up fees, at … the very least. This applies for instance to education and care services for children. A household's private expenditure … on education depends largely on the families' available financial resources. However, to date, very little research has …

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Financial sector: Banks fall behind and now have a lower proportion of women on executive and advisory boards than insurance companies

Holst, Elke; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 7 (2017) 1/2, pp. 16-28

Women are still in the clear minority among the financial sector's top decision-making bodies. According to DIW Berlin's Women Executives Barometer, at the end of 2016, 21 percent of the supervisory and administrative board members of the 100 largest banks were female. The number has stagnated...

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Top decision-making bodies in large companies: Gender quota shows initial impact on supervisory boards executive board remains a male bastion

Holst, Elke; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 7 (2017) 1/2, pp. 3-15

The gender quota for supervisory boards that has been mandatory since January 2016 has shown an initial impact. According to DIW Berlin's Women Executives Barometer, at the end of 2016, there were more women on the supervisory boards of the 106 companies subject to the statutory quota than one...

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Financial sector: Share of women on corporate boards increases slightly but men still call the shots

Holst, Elke; Kirsch, Anja - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 6 (2016) 3, pp. 27-38

employed in the financial sector. As is generally known, the presence of women in senior management in particular is a … prerequisite for their promotion to top management bodies. The companies would therefore be well advised to improve the career …

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Corporate boards of large companies: More momentum needed for gender parity

Holst, Elke; Kirsch, Anja - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 6 (2016) 3, pp. 13-25

Germany's large corporations still have a long way to go before achieving balanced representation of men and women on their boards. At the end of 2015, the share of women on the executive boards of the top 200 companies in Germany was a good six percent, an increase of less than one percentage...

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Top-level management in large companies: Persistent male-dominated structures leave little room for women

Holst, Elke; Schimeta, Julia - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 2 (2012) 4, pp. 3-13

The aim of recruiting more women into top-level management positions in business is attracting increasing interest …

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Passed over for promotions: Women still severely underrepresented on financial sector boards

Holst, Elke; Schimeta, Julia - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 2 (2012) 4, pp. 15-23

-crisis period of management shakeups. As of 2011, the proportion of women on executive boards was still as low as in previous years …

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The German financial sector: Male dominance in top decision-making bodies remains pervasive

Holst, Elke; Schimeta, Julia - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 3 (2013) 3, pp. 16-24

In the German financial sector, the majority of employees are women, but it is still men who hold the top positions. With women making up only 4.2 percent of the boards of the largest banks and savings banks, they were still vastly underrepresented at the end of 2012 (up 1 percentage point from...

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