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Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?
Weber, Andrea Maria; Zulehner, Christine - 2009
According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female workers forgo profits by submitting to their tastes. In a competitive market their firms lack efficiency and are therefore forced to leave. We present new empirical evidence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277089
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Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms
Weber, Andrea Maria; Zulehner, Christine - 2009
conclude that our results support the hypothesis that gender-diversity in leading positions is an advantage for start-up firms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277090
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Competition and gender prejudice : are discriminatory employers doomed to fail?
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - 2009
According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female workers forgo profits by submitting to their tastes. In a competitive market their firms lack efficiency and are therefore forced to leave. We present new empirical evidence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003908366
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Female hires and the success of start-up firms
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - 2009
conclude that our results support the hypothesis that gender-diversity in leading positions is an advantage for start-up firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919841
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Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female workers forgo profits by submitting to their tastes. In a competitive market their firms lack efficiency and are therefore forced to leave. We present new empirical evidence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509366
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Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
conclude that our results support the hypothesis that gender-diversity in leading positions is an advantage for start-up firms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509378
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Wage differences between men and women in Austria : evidence from 1983 and 1997
Böheim, René (contributor); Hofer, Helmut (contributor);  … - 2005
of equal pay laws, may have reduced the gender wage gap. We investigate the extent, persistence, and socio …-economic determinants of the gender wage gap in Austria, for the years 1983 and 1997. Using wage decomposition techniques, we find that the … average gender wage gap was almost as high in 1997 as it was in 1983. Not accounting for differences, the gender wage gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002706968