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      <title>Protection against major catastrophes: An economic perspective</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/69624</link>
      <description>Title: Protection against major catastrophes: An economic perspective
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Wenzel, Lars; Wolf, André
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This paper intends to further understanding of catastrophic events by reviewing the economic literature on their effects as well as potential means of dealing with the corresponding risks and uncertainties. Since 2000, the world has seen a number of catastrophes including terrorist attacks in the United States and Europe, tsunamis in Southeast Asia and Japan as well as volcanic eruptions in Iceland. All of these have had significant impacts on human well-being and economic activity beyond the regional level. In an increasingly populous and globalized world, these types of events and their repercussions are likely to increase. Hence, it is important to ensure that government and private entities cooperate in an attempt to reduce risks of catastrophes.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Equal matches are only half the story: Why German female graduates earn 27 % less than males</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/69623</link>
      <description>Title: Equal matches are only half the story: Why German female graduates earn 27 % less than males
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Boll, Christina; Leppin, Julian Sebastian
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Germany's occupational and sectoral change towards a knowledge-based economy calls for high returns on education. Nevertheless, female graduates are paid much less than their male counterparts. We find an overall unadjusted gender pay gap among German graduates of 27 %. This corresponds to an approximate wage gap of 32.5 % thereof 20,3 % account for different endowments and 12,2 % for different remunerations of characteristics. Suboptimal job matches of females tied in family and partner contexts are supposed to account for at least part of the gendered wage drift. But overeducation does not matter in this regard. Instead, females earn 4 % less because they work on jobs with fewer years of required education. Furthermore, solely males are granted breadwinner wage premiums and only men successfully avoid wage cuts when reducing working hours. We conclude that the price effect of the gap reflects employers' attributions of gender stereotypes, gendered work attitudes as well as noticeable unobserved heterogeneity within and between sexes.</description>
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      <title>Protection against major catastrophes: An economic perspective</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/69624</link>
      <description>Title: Protection against major catastrophes: An economic perspective
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Wenzel, Lars; Wolf, André
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This paper intends to further understanding of catastrophic events by reviewing the economic literature on their effects as well as potential means of dealing with the corresponding risks and uncertainties. Since 2000, the world has seen a number of catastrophes including terrorist attacks in the United States and Europe, tsunamis in Southeast Asia and Japan as well as volcanic eruptions in Iceland. All of these have had significant impacts on human well-being and economic activity beyond the regional level. In an increasingly populous and globalized world, these types of events and their repercussions are likely to increase. Hence, it is important to ensure that government and private entities cooperate in an attempt to reduce risks of catastrophes.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Equal matches are only half the story: Why German female graduates earn 27 % less than males</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/69623</link>
      <description>Title: Equal matches are only half the story: Why German female graduates earn 27 % less than males
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Boll, Christina; Leppin, Julian Sebastian
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Germany's occupational and sectoral change towards a knowledge-based economy calls for high returns on education. Nevertheless, female graduates are paid much less than their male counterparts. We find an overall unadjusted gender pay gap among German graduates of 27 %. This corresponds to an approximate wage gap of 32.5 % thereof 20,3 % account for different endowments and 12,2 % for different remunerations of characteristics. Suboptimal job matches of females tied in family and partner contexts are supposed to account for at least part of the gendered wage drift. But overeducation does not matter in this regard. Instead, females earn 4 % less because they work on jobs with fewer years of required education. Furthermore, solely males are granted breadwinner wage premiums and only men successfully avoid wage cuts when reducing working hours. We conclude that the price effect of the gap reflects employers' attributions of gender stereotypes, gendered work attitudes as well as noticeable unobserved heterogeneity within and between sexes.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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