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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 …
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Women's voice at work and family-friendly firms
Garcia-Louzao, Jose; Perez-Sanz, Ruben - 2024
differ in the presence of women among employee representatives. Our findings suggest that having female representatives at … the bargaining table can help transform workplaces to better meet women’s needs and ultimately close the gender gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486809
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Political leader survival : does competence matter?
Yu, Shu; Jong-A-Pin, Richard - 2013
We examine whether economic and military competence of political leaders affect their duration in office. We introduce leader heterogeneity in the selectorate theory of Bueno de Mesquita et al. (2003) and derive the hypothesis that in the presence of a revolutionary threat, economic competence...
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Can leaders persuade? : examining movement in immigration beliefs
Afrouzi, Hassan; Arteaga, Carolina; Weisburst, Emily - 2022
Can political leaders change constituents' beliefs? If so, is it rhetoric, identity, or the interaction of the two that matters? We construct a large-scale experiment where participants are exposed to anti-immigrant and pro-immigrant speeches from both Presidents Obama and Trump. We benchmark...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822086
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Norms and the evolution of leaders' followership
Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - 2022
In this paper we model the interaction between leaders, their followers and crowd followers in a coordination game with local interaction. The steady states of a dynamic best-response process can feature a coexistence of Pareto dominant and risk dominant actions in the population. The existence...
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Selection into leadership and dishonest behavior of leaders : a gender experiment
Grosch, Kerstin; Müller, Stephan; Rau, Holger A.; … - 2020
, subjects can apply for leadership, whereas in the control treatment, we assign leadership randomly. Results reveal that women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263343
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Peer effects and the gender gap in corporate leadership : evidence from MBA students
Hampole, Menaka; Truffa, Francesca; Wong, Ashley - 2024
Women continue to be underrepresented in corporate leadership positions. This paper studies the role of social … connections in women's career advancement. We investigate whether access to a larger share of female peers in business school … proportion of female MBA section peers increases the likelihood of entering senior management for women but not for men. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015050800
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Exposure to female colleagues breaks the glass ceiling : evidence from a combined vignette and field experiment
Finseraas, Henning; Johnsen, Åshild A.; Kotsadam, Andreas - 2015
Increased diversity in the workforce can lead to either more or less discrimination. We study discrimination among recruits in the Norwegian Armed Forces during boot camp. In a vignette experiment female candidates are perceived as less suited to be squad leaders than their identical male...
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Immediate manager gender and female wages : the importance of manager position
Halldén, Karin; Säve-Söderbergh, Jenny; Rosén, Åsa - 2016
One argument for increasing female representation in management is the anticipation that female managers are particularly beneficial for female employees through, e.g., role modeling or mentoring. Contrary to the expected positive association, we find that female wages are negatively associated...
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Do male managers increase risk-taking of female teams? : evidence from the NCAA
Böheim, René; Freudenthaler, Christoph; Lackner, Mario - 2019
We analyze the effect of the coach's gender on risk-taking in women sports teams using data taken from National …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977094