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A vast labor literature has found evidence of a "glass ceiling", whereby women are under-represented among senior management. A key question remains the extent to which this reflects unobserved differences in productivity, preferences, prejudice, or systematically biased beliefs about the...

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The "entrepreneurial boss" effect on employees' future entrepreneurship choices : a role model story?

Rocha, Vera; Praag, Mirjam van - 2016

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