Women from Western countries are more in favor of income redistribution than men. This gender discrepancy is only evident when earnings are uncertain and depend on one's own performance. While men are usually over-optimistic about their performance,...

Digitalization offers a variety of opportunities for female empowerment and for a more equal female participation in labor markets, financial markets, a

One focus of our international policy advice is on the topics of the 20 most important industrial and emerging countries (G20). We advise decision-makers through networks such as the think tank group T20. Results and activities of this commitment can...

We explore the export performance of Africa’s underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel, a comprehensive dataset of manufacturing firms for 2011–2015. Uniquely, the data provides information about the severity of key...

The Kiel Focus series presents essay-like articles on current economic policy topics. The Institute considers the articles to be suitable for enriching the debate on these topics. The authors are solely responsible for their content and their views...

This paper investigates the impact of new digital technologies, including advances in artificial intelligence, on men’s and women’s jobs across sectors in developing and transition economies. On the one hand, new digital technologies may have...