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Expansions in paid parental leave and mothers' economic progress
Corekcioglu, Gozde; Francesconi, Marco; Kunze, Astrid - 2022
We examine the impact of government-funded universal paid parental leave extensions on the likelihood that mothers reach top-pay jobs and executive positions, using eight Norwegian reforms. Up to a quarter of a century after childbirth, such reforms neither helped nor hurt mothers' chances to be...
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Gender diversity, labour 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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Selection into leadership and dishonest behavior of leaders : a gender experiment
Grosch, Kerstin; Müller, Stephan; Rau, Holger A.; … - 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...
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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 … 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. …
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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 Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball games. We find that the coach's gender has a sizable and significant effect on risk-taking, a finding that is robust to several...
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Gender equality in Muslim-majority countries
Gouda, Moamen; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016
Discrimination has been documented against women in Muslim-majority countries. Constitutions differ among Muslim-majority countries. By using women's rights indicators and exploiting cross-country variation, we find that discrimination against women is more pronounced in countries where Islam is...
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Competition for promotion can induce household specialization between equally competitive spouses
Bastani, Spencer; Dickmanns, Lisa; Giebe, Thomas; … - 2022
We analyze equally competitive spouses competing for promotion in their respective workplaces and show that an asymmetric equilibrium featuring household specialization can arise. Examples where the asymmetric equilibrium is welfare-superior to the symmetric equilibrium are highlighted. By...
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Does paternity leave promote gender equality within households?
González, Libertad; Zoabi, Hosny - 2021
We consider a non-cooperative model of the household, in which the husband and wife decide on parental leave and the allocation of time between child rearing and the labor market. They can choose the non-cooperative outside option or cooperate by reaching an agreement of specialization in which...
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Women's rights and the gender migration gap
Gutmann, Jerg; Marchal, Léa; Simsek, Betül - 2023
This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap (GMG) using data on 158 origin and 37 destination countries over the period 1961-2019. We estimate a gravity equation derived from a random utility maximization model of...
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Taxes and gender equality : the incidence of the "tampon tax"
Büttner, Thiess; Hechtner, Frank; Madzharova, Boryana - 2023
Many countries are currently debating whether to reduce or eliminate taxes on feminine hygiene products as a measure to address "period poverty" and promote gender equality. Legislators often reject proposals involving reforms of "tampon taxes" as the pass-through of sales taxes into consumer...
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