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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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Should Employment Authorities Worry About Mergers and Acquisitions?
Margolis, David N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
. Second, it examines which individuals from which firms remain with the newly created entity after the takeover. Using a … active in the post-takeover period, with employees of the acquired firm being less likely to remain with the new entity in … the short term after takeover than those of the acquiring firm and with the differences between the two types of firms …
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Anonymous Job Applications in Europe
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of discrimination. To test whether their intended effects result in practice, in several European countries...
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Leadership and the Research Productivity of University Departments
Goodall, Amanda H.; McDowell, John M.; Singell, Larry D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Much of human knowledge is produced in the world's university departments. There is little scientific evidence, however, about how those hundreds of thousands of departments are best organized and led. This study hand-collects longitudinal data on departmental chairpersons in 58 US universities...
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Screening for Honesty
Ruffle, Bradley; Tobol, Yossi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We report the results of a field experiment on honesty conducted on 427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory military service. Each soldier rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the outcome to the unit's cadet coordinator. For every point reported, the soldier received an...
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Firm-Level Hiring Difficulties: Persistence, Business Cycle and Local Labour Market Influences
Fabling, Richard; Maré, Dave C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We examine the correlates of reported hiring difficulties at the firm level using linked employer-employee and panel survey data over 2005-2011, focussing on the relative influence of firm-level characteristics, persistence, the business cycle and local labour market liquidity. At both the...
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Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? Evidence from the Employers' Side
Brenzel, Hanna; Gartner, Hermann; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper is the first to analyze the incidence of wage posting and wage bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with about two-thirds of hirings...
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What Happens When Employers are Free to Discriminate? Evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League
Bryson, Alex; Chevalier, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Research on employers' hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League, where employers can freely exercise their taste for...
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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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Not in My Community: Social Pressure and the Geography of Dismissals
Bassanini, Andrea; Brunello, Giorgio; Caroli, Eve - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We investigate the role of local social pressure in shaping the geographical pattern of firms' firing decisions. Using French linked employer-employee data, we show that social pressure exerted by the local communities where firms' headquarters are located induces CEOs to refrain from dismissing...
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