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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

during the period 1997-2007. After controlling for a large number of family-related variables, including take-up history of …

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Long-Term Effects of School Size on Students' Outcomes

Humlum, Maria Knoth; Smith, Nina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

labor market, and earnings at the age of 30. We use rich register data on the entire population of Danish children attending …

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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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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

In this paper, we analyze immigrant wage gaps and propose an extension of the traditional wage decomposition technique, which is a synthesis from two strains of literature on ethnic/immigrant wage differences, namely the ‘assimilation literature’ and the ‘discrimination literature’. We...

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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

This paper analyses the effect of housework on men and women’s wages in Denmark by estimating quantile regressions on Danish time use survey data from 1987, merged to register information on hourly wages and other labour market variables for each of the years 1987-1991. We find, as in U.S....

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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

fixed effects estimation we find that the female-led hypothesis cannot be supported. Firms with a female chairman of the …

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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

gender differences between children without behavioral problems living in 'normal families', i.e. families which are not … and parent evaluations of the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) of about 6,000 children born in 1990-92 in a … large region in Denmark. The sample is merged with register information on parents and students observed until the age of 19 …

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The Effect of Marriage on Education of Immigrants: Evidence from a Policy Reform Restricting Spouse Import

Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Smith, Nina; Celikaksoy, Aycan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

interpret the results as being consistent with a scenario where family investment motives drive the behavior of males, while the …

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