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Mit der europäischen Währungsunion kam es zu einer Vereinheitlichung der Geldpolitik und zu einem System fixer Wechselkurse. Damit gingen Fehlanreize einher, die gravierende wirtschaftliche Verwerfungen nach sich gezogen haben. Derzeit werden - nicht nur im DIW Berlin - Vorschläge...
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Promoting minimum age of employment regulation has been a centerpiece in child labor policy for the last 15 years. If enforced, minimum age regulation would change the age profile of paid child employment. Using micro-data from 59 mostly low-income countries, we observe that age can explain less...
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This paper investigates wage assimilation of foreign-born male workers in Britain over the period 1993 to 2009. Using Labour Force Survey data, the paper employs a methodology (Blinder-Oaxaca quantile regressions) to decompose the immigrant-native wage differential at the mean and across the...
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This study estimates the impact of migrants’ remittances on households’ spending decisions in Ecuador. Applying both parametric and semiparametric techniques, we find strong evidence that remittances enhance expenditures on education, health, and housing, but decrease expenditures on food....
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of employed women, among other characteristics, tends to fully offset the gender wage gap. Not surprisingly, the returns … employed women. The relatively small sample constrains a fuller analysis of the emergence of the gender wage gap, which …Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage …
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Despite all initiatives to eliminate the gender pay gap in Germany, men continue to earn considerably more than women … women. Looking only at this unexplained part of the gender pay gap across the entire distribution, i.e., across the various … weiterhin deutlich mehr als Frauen. Seit dem Jahr 2000 hat sich der sogenannte Gender Pay Gap in der Bundesrepublik nur um gut …
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. -- financial sector ; board diversity ; women CEOs ; gender equality ; management ; public and private banks ; insurance companies …
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erhofften Durchbruch bei den Besetzungen von Vorständen und Aufsichtsräten geführt. -- board diversity ; women CEOs ; gender …
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diversity ; women CEOs ; gender equality ; management ; public and private Banks ; insurances companies …In the financial sector, women represent the majority of employees, but it is still men who remain in the top positions …. With women making up only 4.2 percent of the boards of the largest banks and savings banks at the end of 2012, they are …
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sighted, however. -- board diversity ; women CEOs ; gender equality ; management ; listed companies ; private companies …Despite companies' commitment to more women in top-level management, at the end of 2012 only four percent of all seats … women. This corresponds to an increase of one percentage point on the previous year in both cases. Nevertheless, at the end …
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