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Although there are a variety of studies on the gender pay gap, only a few relate to managerial positions. The present study attempts to fill this gap. Managers in private companies in Germany are a highly selective group of women and men, who differ only marginally in their human capital...
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This paper focuses on gender differences in the role played by locus of control within a model that predicts outcomes for men and women at two opposite poles of the labour market: high level managerial / leadership positions and unemployment. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel,...
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inequality on earnings levels and gender wage differentials in management positions. Our paper is, to our knowledge, the first in …
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The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed-effects models. It deals with the effect of occupational sex segregation on wages, and the extent to which wage penalties for managers in predominantly female occupations are...
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Research and development is seen as a key contributor to growth because it generates knowledge, leading to new or … improved products through product innovation, and makes firms more efficient at producing goods through process innovation … relationship between productivity growth, innovation and digital technology adoption plays out is particularly important for the …
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This paper analyzes M&A patterns of R&D projects in the antidiabetics industry. For this purpose, we construct a database with all corporate individual antidiabetics R&D projects over the period 1997 - 2017, and add detailed information on firms' technology dimension using patent information,...
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highly-developed innovation profiles. Analysis of the prerequisites for knowledge-based growth indicates that transition … eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, in order to identify which countries have established a knowledge-based growth … by the working paper measure up according to traditional innovation input and output indicators. But the major part of …
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and in knowledge-intensive service industries make a larger direct contribution to employment than start-ups affiliated … with other industries. We also find a relatively strong overall effect of new business formation in knowledge …
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