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Are Female Workers Less Productive Than Male Workers? Productivity and the Gender Wage Gap

Meyerson, Eva M.; Petersen, Trond; Snartland, Vemund - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

It is extraordinarily difficult to determine the extent to which the gender wage gap reflects discriminatory behaviors … of gender because one is paid for what one produces. With this as our point of departure, we compared men and women … easy to summarize. First, the gender wage gap is clearly smaller under piece- than under time-rate work. According to the …

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Are Female Workers Less Productive Than Male Workers? Productivity and the Gender Wage Gap?

Meyerson, E.M.; Petersen, T.; Snartland, V. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

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Women's Representation and Public Spending

Svaleryd, Helena - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

This paper studies whether the degree of women’s representation in Swedish local councils affects local public expenditure patterns. Theoretically, the individual preferences of elected representatives may have an impact on public expenditure if full policy commitment is not feasible. To...

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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework

Douhan, Robin; van Praag, Mirjam - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...

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The Glass Ceiling in Politics: Formalization and Empirical Tests

Folke, Olle; Rickne, Johanna - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

There is a scarcity of women and minorities at the apex of political power. This paper formalizes the concept of the glass ceiling for political organizations and builds on previous research to suggest four testable criteria. A glass ceiling exists if women and/or racial minorities (1) are...

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The Psychology of the Entrepreneur and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship

Bengtsson, Ola; Sanandaji, Tino; Johannesson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

gender differences in entrepreneurship. Measured psychological characteristics can account for one third of the large gender … gap in entrepreneurship, but only one tenth of the smaller gender gap in self-employment. Men are one and a half times …

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Gender, Wages, and Social Security in China’s Industrial Sector

Rickne, Johanna - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

-wage income in the form of social insurance payments. The gender-wage gap is wider among workers with more than 12 years of …

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Testing the Female Underperformance Hypothesis.

Du Rietz, A.; Henrekson, M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999

disappears for three out of four performance variables. The only exception is sales. No gender difference is found for …

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Testing the Female Underperformance Hypothesis

Henrekson, Magnus; Du Rietz, Anita - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999

disappears for three out of four performance variables. The only exception is sales. No gender difference is found for …

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Why Are There So Few Female Top Executives in Egalitarian Welfare States?

Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

use the share of female executives as a proxy for gender equality in welfare states; and (iii) psychological mechanisms …

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