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Women Helping Women? Evidence from Private Sector Data on Workplace Hierarchies
Kunze, Astrid; Miller, Amalia R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper studies gender spillovers in career advancement using 11 years of employer-employee matched data on the … positive gender spillovers across ranks (flowing from higher-ranking to lower-ranking women) but negative spillovers within … ranks. The finding that greater female representation at higher ranks narrows the gender gap in promotion rates at lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103495
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Gender and Job Performance: Evidence from Wall Street
Green, T. Clifton; Jegadeesh, Narasimhan; Tang, Yue - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
We study the relation between gender and job performance among brokerage firm equity analysts. Women's representation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720557
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Firm/Employee Matching: An Industry Study of American Lawyers
Oyer, Paul; Schaefer, Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We study the sources of match-specific value at large American law firms by analyzing how graduates of law schools group into law firms. We measure the degree to which lawyers from certain schools concentrate within firms and then analyze how this agglomeration can be explained by "natural...
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The US Gender Pay Gap in the 1990s: Slowing Convergence
Blau, Francine; Kahn, Lawrence - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
convergence in the 1990s. Factors that may have contributed to the slower narrowing of the unexplained gender pay gap include … changes in labor force selectivity, changes in gender differences in unmeasured characteristics and labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084766
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Theories of Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action: A Survey
Fang, Hanming; Moro, Andrea - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This chapter surveys the theoretical literature on statistical discrimination and affirmative action. This literature suggests different explanations for the existence and persistence of group inequality. This survey highlights such differences and describes in these contexts the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008624580
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Lucky CEOs
Bebchuk, Lucian; Grinstein, Yaniv; Peyer, Urs C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
We study the relation between corporate governance and opportunistic timing of CEO option grants via backdating or otherwise. Our methodology focuses on how grant date prices rank within the price distribution of the grant month. During 1996-2005, about 12% of firms provided one or more lucky...
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CEO Centrality
Bebchuk, Lucian; Peyer, Urs C.; Cremers, Martijn - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
We investigate the relationship between CEO centrality -- the relative importance of the CEO within the top executive team in terms of ability, contribution, or power -- and the value and behavior of public firms. Our proxy for CEO centrality is the fraction of the top-five compensation captured...
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The Growth of Executive Pay
Bebchuk, Lucian; Grinstein, Yaniv - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
This paper examines both empirically and theoretically the growth of U.S. executive pay during the period 1993-2003. During this period, pay has grown much beyond the increase that could be explained by changes in firm size, performance and industry classification. Had the relationship of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011935
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Lucky Directors
Bebchuk, Lucian; Grinstein, Yaniv; Peyer, Urs C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
While prior empirical work and much public attention have focused on the opportunistic timing of executives' grants, we provide in this paper evidence that outside directors' option grants have also been favorably timed to an extent that cannot be fully explained by sheer luck. Examining events...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005580584
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Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors? Interim Results from a Randomized Trial
Blau, Francine; Currie, Janet; Croson, Rachel; Ginther, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
While much has been written about the potential benefits of mentoring in academia, very little research documents its effectiveness. We present data from a randomized controlled trial of a mentoring program for female economists organized by the Committee for the Status of Women in the Economics...
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