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Gender Diversity, Gender in the Boardroom and Gender Quotas
Kunze, Astrid; Scharfenkamp, Katrin - 2022
This study investigates boards of (non-executive) directors and whether employee representation has a positive effect on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany, which contain unique information on whether a director...
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Do Employees Benefit from Worker Representation on Corporate Boards?
Blandhol, Christine; Mogstad, Magne; Nilsson, Peter; … - 2021
Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards? Economists and policymakers are keenly interested in this question – especially lately, as worker representation is widely promoted as an important way to ensure the interests and views of the workers. To investigate this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314747
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Selection into Leadership and Dishonest Behavior of Leaders : A Gender Experiment
Grosch, Kerstin - 2020
Leaders often have to weigh ethical against monetary consequences. Such situations may evoke psychological costs from being dishonest and dismissing higher monetary benefits for others. In a within-subjects experiment, we analyze such a dilemma. We first measure individual dishonest behavior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824596
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Ownership concentration, monitoring and optimal board structure
Graziano, Clara; Luporini, Annalisa - 2005
The paper analyzes the optimal structure of the board of directors in a firm with a large shareholder sitting on the board. In a one-tier structure the sole board performs all tasks, while in a two-tier structure the management board is in charge of project selection and the supervisory board is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261334
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Cracks in the Boards : The Opportunity Cost of Governance Homogeneity
Maghin, Helene - 2022
Does the composition of governance affect firm outcomes? We exploit the timings and thresholds of a gender quota in boards of directors and supervisory boards to causally determine the impact of a change in leadership on performance. Using a novel design and data on boards, we find that firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081427
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When Women Take All : Direct Election and Female Leadership
Cipullo, Davide - 2023
This paper investigates how direct election regimes (à la presidential democracy) affect the selection of women into political offices compared to indirect appointment (à la parliamentary). Exploiting the staggered phase-in across Italian municipalities of a reform to the local institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262951
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Optimal delegation when the large shareholder has multiple tasks
Graziano, Clara; Luporini, Annalisa - 2010
We analyze the optimal ownership, delegation and compensation structures when a manager is hired to run a firm and to gather information on investment projects. The initial owner has two tasks: monitoring the manager and supervising project choice. Optimality would require a large ownership...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270637
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Do Employees Benefit from Worker Representation on Corporate Boards?
Blandhol, Christine; Mogstad, Magne; Nilsson, Peter; … - 2020
Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards? Economists and policymakers are keenly interested in this question – especially lately, as worker representation is widely promoted as an important way to ensure the interests and views of the workers. To investigate this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425700
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Immediate Manager Gender and Female Wages - The Importance of Manager Position
Halldén, Karin; Säve-Söderbergh, Jenny; Rosen, Asa - 2016
One argument for increasing female representation in management is the anticipation that female managers are … position, and controlling for important sorting of employees, the negative association is found only among lower-level managers … and not among high-level managers. We discuss decision-making power as one possible explanation for this heterogeneity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431239
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The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - 2016
Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender wage gap, which declined considerably over this period. By 2010, conventional human capital variables taken together explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431261