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Do Women Top Managers Help Women Advance? A Panel Study Using EEO-1 Records
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce … management on subsequent female representation in lower-level managerial positions in U.S. firms. Our key findings show that an …-level management positions within firms, and this result is robust to controlling for firm size, workforce composition, federal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541271
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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
2500 largest Danish firms observed during the period 1993-2001 and find that the proportion of women in top management jobs … direction of causality. The results show that the positive effects of women in top management depend on the qualifications of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703543
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Anonymous Job Applications in Europe
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
recently conducted. Also in Germany, a large field experiment has examined the practicability and potentials of this approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990936
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Labor Market Deregulation and Female Employment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Japan
Kato, Takao; Kodama, Naomi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper provides novel evidence on the causal effect on female employment of labor market deregulation by using the 1985 amendments to the Labor Standards Law (LSL) in Japan as a natural experiment. The original LSL of 1947 prohibited women from working overtime exceeding two hours a day; six...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884348
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The Gender-Career Estimation Gap
Kaiser, Lutz C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
workers in Germany. The results display obvious discrepancies between self- and reciprocally estimated career expectations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959548
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Analysis of Gender Wage Differential in China's Urban Labor Market
Su, Biwei; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper estimates the gender wage gap and its composition in China's urban labor market using the 2009 survey data from the Chinese Family Panel Studies. Several estimation and decomposition methods have been used and compared. First, we examine the gender wage gap using ordinary least square...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416933
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Active Labor Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe: A Survey
Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard J. van den - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703577
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Women-Led Firms and the Gender Gap in Top Executive Jobs
Bell, Linda A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Using data on Executive Compensation from Standard and Poor's ExecuComp, this paper explores the gender gap in top executive jobs and the effect of women CEOs, Chairs, and Directors on the pay of other women executives. The results show a narrowing of the uncorrected gender pay gap from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822716
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Do Employer Preferences Contribute to Sticky Floors?
Baert, Stijn; De Pauw, Ann-Sophie; Deschacht, Nick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We investigate the importance of employer preferences in explaining Sticky Floors, the pattern that women are, compared to men, less likely to start to climb the job ladder. To this end we perform a randomised field experiment in the Belgian labour market and test whether hiring discrimination...
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Occupational Sex Segregation and Management-Level Wages in Germany: What Role Does Firm Size Play?
Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed … the devaluation of women's work, we find wage penalties for female occupations in management only in large firms. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279340