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Qualifications, Discrimination, or Assimilation? An Extended Framework for Analysing Immigrant Wage Gaps

Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Rosholm, Michael; Smith, Nina; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

could find employment and thus accumulate work experience. …

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Selection or Network Effects? Migration Flows into 27 OECD Countries, 1990-2000

Pedersen, Peder J.; Pytlikova, Mariola; Smith, Nina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Recent migration patterns show growing migration pressure and changing composition of immigrants in many Western countries. During the latest decade, an increasing proportion of the OECD immigrants have been from poor countries, where the educational level of the population is low. The migration...

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Why Are So Few Females Promoted into CEO and Vice-President Positions? Danish Empirical Evidence 1997-2007

Smith, Nina; Smith, Valdemar; Verner, Mette - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

In most OECD countries, only very few women succeed in reaching top executive positions. In this paper, the probability of promotion into VP and CEO positions is estimated based on employer-employee data on all Danish companies observed during the period 1997-2007. After controlling for a large...

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Do Women in Top Management Affect Firm Performance? A Panel Study of 2500 Danish Firms

Smith, Nina; Smith, Valdemar; Verner, Mette - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Corporate governance literature argues that board diversity is potentially positively related to firm performance. This study examines the relationship in the case of women in top executive jobs and on boards of directors. We use data for the 2500 largest Danish firms observed during the period...

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The Gender Pay Gap in Top Corporate Jobs in Denmark: Glass Ceilings, Sticky Floors or Both?

Smith, Nina; Smith, Valdemar; Verner, Mette - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper analyses the gender gap in compensation for CEOs, Vice-Directors, and potential top executives in the 2000 … the period, the overall gender gap in compensation for top executives and potential top executives decreased from 35 … percent to 31 percent. However, contrary to many other studies, we do not find that the gender gap for Danish top executives …

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Timing and Flexibility of Housework and Men and Women's Wages

Bonke, Jens; Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Smith, Nina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

housework immediately before or after market work or engage in home tasks that require contiguous blocks of time are …

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Why So Few Women on Boards of Directors? Empirical Evidence from Danish Companies 1997-2007

Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Smith, Nina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper analyzes the determinants of women on the boards of directors based on a panel sample of all Danish companies in the private sector with more than 50 employees. The share of women on the boards of directors was 12 percent in 2007 and has only slowly increased during the period...

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Female-Led Firms: Performance and Risk Attitudes

Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Smith, Nina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper investigates the relationship between gender of the CEO and composition of the board of directors (female …

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Gender Differences in the Effects of Behavioral Problems on School Outcomes

Kristoffersen, Jannie H. G.; Smith, Nina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

problems. A decomposition of the estimates indicates that most of the gender differences in Reading and Math cannot be related … to gender differences in behavioral problems. The large overall gender gap in Reading seems mainly to be the result of … gender differences between children without behavioral problems living in 'normal families', i.e. families which are not …

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