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Managerial performance of a female-owned and home-based firm
Oladipo, Oluwasheyi S.; Platt, Katarzyna; Shim, Hyoung Suk - 2020
Female entrepreneurship has been regarded as inferior to its male equivalent in terms of performance. Literature on gender differences in entrepreneurship focus mostly on showing the differences, but not much literature discusses where the differences come from, and how to mitigate them. This...
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Maternity and family leave policy
Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2017
Maternity and family leave policies enable mothers to take time off work to prepare for and recover from childbirth and to care for their new children. While there is substantial variation in the details of these policies around the world, the existing research yields the following general...
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Anatomy of welfare reform evaluation : announcement and implementation effects
Blundell, Richard W.; Francesconi, Marco; Klaauw, … - 2011
This paper formulates a simple model of female labor force decisions which embeds an in-work benefit reform and … the announcement of a reform that increases in-work benefits, including sources of intertemporal substitution, human … announcement and implementation of a major UK in-work benefit reform, we estimate its effects on single mothers' behavior. We find …
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Performance pay and the gender wage gap : evidence from Spain
Rica, Sara de la; Dolado, Juan J.; Vegas, Raquel - 2010
This paper uses detailed information from a large wage survey in 2006 to analyze the gender wage gap in the performance-pay (PP) component of total hourly wages and its contribution to the overall gender gap in Spain. Under the assumption that PP is determined in a more competitive fashion than...
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Work-life balance practices, performance-related pay, and gender equality in the workplace : evidence from Japan
Kato, Takao; Kodama, Naomi - 2015
This paper uses unique firm-level panel data from Japan and provides new evidence on the possible impact on gender equality in the workplace of human resources management (HRM) practices. Specifically we consider a number of work-life balance (WLB) practices that are developed in part to enhance...
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Women in the workplace and management practices : theory and evidence
Kato, Takao; Kodama, Naomi - 2017
We review recent studies on management practices and their consequences for women in the workplace. First, the High Performance Work System (HPWS) is associated with greater gender diversity in the workplace while there is little evidence that the HPWS reduces the gender pay gap. Second,...
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Female leadership and gender gap within firms : evidence from an Italian board reform
Maida, Agata; Weber, Andrea - 2019
over a period of 4 years. While the reform substantially raised the female membership on corporate boards, we find no …
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Fertility and labor market responses to reductions in mortality
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar S.; … - 2018
We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to large declines in child and maternal mortality that occurred following a major medical innovation in the US. In response to the decline in child mortality, women delayed childbearing and had fewer children overall. Fewer...
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Gender differences in subjective well-being in and out of management positions
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2010
This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self-reported subjective well-being was associated with occupying a high-level managerial position in the labour market, compared with employment in nonleadership, non-high-level...
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More female manager hires through more female managers? : evidence from Germany
Bossler, Mario; Mosthaf, Alexander; Schank, Thorsten - 2016
This paper investigates if there is state dependence in the gender composition of managers in German establishments. We … analyze whether the number of hired female managers (respectively the share of females within hired managers) depends on the … female manager hires in present leads to more female hired managers in the future. Similarly, the number of male manager …
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