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Why so few women on boards of directors? : empirical evidence from Danish companies 1997 - 2007
Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Smith, Nina - 2013
This paper analyzes the determinants of women on the boards of directors based on a panel sample of all Danish companies in the private sector with more than 50 employees. The share of women on the boards of directors was 12 percent in 2007 and has only slowly increased during the period...
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The gender pay gap in top corporate jobs in Denmark : glass ceilings, sticky floors or both?
Smith, Nina; Smith, Valdemar; Verner, Mette - 2010
This paper analyses the gender gap in compensation for CEOs, Vice-Directors, and potential top executives in the 2000 largest Danish private companies based on a panel data set of employer-employees data covering the period 1996-2005. During the period, the overall gender gap in compensation for...
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Female-led firms : performance and risk attitudes
Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Smith, Nina - 2013
This paper investigates the relationship between gender of the CEO and composition of the board of directors (female chairman and share of women in the boardroom) and firm's risk attitudes measured as variability in four firm outcome variables (investments, profits, return to equity, and sales)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128850
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Gender stereotyping and self-stereotyping attitudes : a large field study of managers
Eriksson, Tor; Smith, Nina; Smith, Valdemar - 2017
-stereotyping in a large cross section of (about 2,970) managers at different job levels in (1,875) Danish private-sector firms. The … survey data used contain detailed information about the managers as well as their employers. We find significant gender … differences between managers with regard to gender stereotyping attitudes. Male managers on average tend to have stronger gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715918
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Working hours and top management appointments : evidence from linked employer-employee data
Frederiksen, Anders; Kato, Takao; Smith, Nina - 2018
evidence with external validity on a positive association between working hours and career success (measured by top management … are more beneficial for career advancement. Specifically we find: (i) for managers, working long hours will help them … increase their odds of top management appointments in the same firm, while not in a different firm, while for non …
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