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  • Weekly Report

    Increasing number of women on supervisory boards of major companies in Germany: executive boards still dominated by men

    By Elke Holst and Katharina Wrohlich The gender quota for supervisory boards is continuing to show its impact: the proportion of women on the supervisory boards of the 200 highest-performing companies in Germany increased by over two percentage points to 27 percent the past year. In the 100 largest companies, it increased by over three percentage points to 28 percent. However, there are now indications ...

    18.01.2019| Elke Holst, Katharina Wrohlich
  • Weekly Report

    Women on high-level boards of banks and insurance companies: growth coming to a standstill on supervisory boards

    By Elke Holst and Katharina Wrohlich The proportion of women on executive boards of the 100 largest banks stagnated at almost nine percent in 2018. In the 60 largest insurance companies, the proportion increased by a good percentage point to almost ten percent. While growth on executive boards has been weakening in past years, it is now slowing down on supervisory boards in the financial sector as ...

    18.01.2019| Elke Holst, Katharina Wrohlich
  • Diskussionspapiere 1799 / 2019

    Gender Identity and Wives' Labor Market Outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016

    We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the representative German Socio-Economic Panel ...

    2019| Maximilian Sprengholz, Anna Wieber, Elke Holst
  • Externe referierte Aufsätze

    Peer Effects in Parental Leave Decisions

    We analyze whether mothers’ parental leave decisions depend on their coworkers’ decisions. The identification of peer effects bears various challenges due to correlated characteristics within social groups. We therefore exploit quasi-random variation in the costs of parental leave induced by a policy reform in Germany. The reform encourages mothers to remain at home during the first year following ...

    In: Labour Economics 57 (2019), S. 146-163 | Clara Welteke, Katharina Wrohlich
  • DIW Weekly Report 3 / 2019

    Increasing Number of Women on Supervisory Boards of Major Companies in Germany: Executive Boards Still Dominated by Men

    The gender quota for supervisory boards is continuing to show its impact: the proportion of women on the supervisory boards of the 200 highest-performing companies in Germany increased by over two percentage points to 27 percent the past year. In the 100 largest companies, it increased by over three percentage points to 28 percent. However, there are now indications that the companies are only doing ...

    2019| Elke Holst, Katharina Wrohlich
  • DIW Weekly Report 3 / 2019

    Women on High-Level Boards of Banks and Insurance Companies: Growth Coming to a Standstill on Supervisory Boards

    The proportion of women on executive boards of the 100 largest banks stagnated at almost nine percent in 2018. In the 60 largest insurance companies, the proportion increased by a good percentage point to almost ten percent. While growth on executive boards has been weakening in past years, it is now slowing down on supervisory boards in the financial sector as well. In 2018, the proportion of women ...

    2019| Elke Holst, Katharina Wrohlich
  • Diskussionspapiere 1794 / 2019

    Occupational Characteristics and the Gender Pay Gap

    Germany has a large persistent Gender Pay Gap of 21 %; although this gap is not constant across occupations. The question arises why some occupations have large Gender Pay Gaps while others have only small gaps. Using data from the Structural Earnings Study merged with occupational task information provided by the Federal Labor Office, this paper aims to uncover the relationship between occupational ...

    2019| Aline Zucco
  • SOEPpapers 1032 / 2019

    Potenziale unfreiwilliger Teilzeit in Deutschland

    Working-time political debates often focus on options for flexible and variable working hours. Meanwhile, employees' desire for more time sovereignty is gaining relevance. Although working time preferences and their impact on the German labor market are investigated in numerous studies, findings are inconsistent, varying with the data set, including the formulation and placement of questions in the ...

    2019| Verena Tobsch, Elke Holst
  • SOEPpapers 1030 / 2019

    Gender Identity and Wives’ Labor Market Outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016

    We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the representative German Socio-Economic Panel ...

    2019| Maximilian Sprengholz, Anna Wieber, Elke Holst
  • DIW Weekly Report 38 / 2019

    Gender Quotas in a European Comparison: Tough Sanctions Most Effective

    Women remain significantly underrepresented in the top decision-making bodies in the private sector. Over the past few years, increasingly more European countries have introduced statutory gender quotas to combat this underrepresentation. Other European countries have instead relied on voluntary gender diversity recommendations in the national corporate governance codes. Statutory gender quotas are ...

    2019| Paula Arndt, Katharina Wrohlich
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