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Housing Satisfaction, Homeownership and Housing Mobility: A Panel Data Analysis for Twelve EU Countries
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We investigate the determinants of housing satisfaction in twelve EU countries. To do so, we use panel data covering the period 1994-2001, which allows us to control for individual heterogeneity. We carry out separate estimates on the determinants of housing satisfaction for homeowners and for...
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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
female labor forces. We also find that the positive influence of women in top leadership positions on managerial gender …
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
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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A Policy Agenda for Diversity and Minority Integration
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The social and labor market integration of ethnic minorities in the EU is still a major political, societal and economic challenge. Based on evidence presented in Kahanec and Zimmermann (2011), this policy paper proposes an agenda for diversity and minority integration in the European labor...
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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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Breaking the Glass Ceiling? The Effect of Board Quotas on Female Labor Market Outcomes in Norway
Bertrand, Marianne; Black, Sandra E.; Jensen, Sissel; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40 percent representation of each gender on the board of publicly limited … corporate sector and decrease gender disparity in earnings within that sector. We document that the newly (post …-reform) appointed female board members were observably more qualified than their female predecessors, and that the gender gap in …
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Ownership or Performance: What Determines Board of Directors' Turnover in Italy?
Brunello, Giorgio; Graziano, Clara; Parigi, Bruno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
This paper studies the turnover of board of directors members in a sample of 72 companies listed on the Milan Stock Exchange during the period 1988-1996. We investigate whether board members change more frequently when company performance is poor, as the literature suggests, and whether and how...
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The Effect of Female Leadership on Establishment and Employee Outcomes: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, M. Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
investigate how the gender composition of the top layer of management affects a variety of establishment and worker outcomes. We … use two different measures to identify the gender composition of the top layer based on direct survey data: the fraction …
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Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits: Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …
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Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959523