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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 by employers or differences in productive capacities between men and women. We note that where piece-rate work is performed, wages should in principle reflect productivity...

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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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Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighborhood Quality and/or Parents' Involvement?

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004

's involvement in children's education, indicating cultural complementarity. For high-educated parents, we also find that both … parents' involvement in education and neighborhood's quality significantly affect the intergenerational transmission of … education, the former being more potent than the latter. Low-educated parents do not spend much time educating their offspring …

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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

Self-employment is often used as synonymous with entrepreneurship. We define entrepreneurship as having the ambition to grow or innovate. As part of a large and representative survey in Sweden, business owners were asked to self-identify as either entrepreneurs or self-employed. The survey in...

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

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

education (28%), mainly because of the higher relative wages received by skilled men in foreign-invested firms. Women’s average …

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Testing the Female Underperformance Hypothesis.

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

Most previous studies have found evidence at the aggregate level that female entrepreneurs underperform relative to their male counterparts. This study conducts a comprehensive test of this finding. The test is conducted on a large Swedish sample of 4200 entrepreneurs (405 females) with 1 to 20...

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Testing the Female Underperformance Hypothesis

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

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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

We identify pertinent institutions governing the structure of payoffs with regard to female career progression. Drawing on recent insights in behavioral economics, we hypothesize that interactions between psychological mechanisms and the institutional setup may be important determinants of...

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Is Team Formation Gender Neutral? Evidence from Coauthorship Patterns

Boschini, Anne; Sjögren, Anna - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006

We investigate if voluntary team formation is gender neutral. To this end, we model team formation as a random matching process influenced by the agents' preferences for team size and gender composition and derive how team formation depends on the gender ratio in the population of prospective...

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