even a high-productivity candidate who is privately favoured by one agent, as may be the case in efforts to increase gender …

This paper uses unique firm-level panel data from Japan and provides new evidence on the possible impact on gender … (WLB) practices that are developed in part to enhance gender equality as well as performance-related pay (PRP) that is one … period part-time work is found to result in a decrease in the proportion of female directors (or exacerbating gender …

This paper studies economic effects of the gender composition of corporate boards, employing a new and unique …. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative measures of gender diversity, and several performance indicators, we … find some evidence that companies with gender-diverse boards have higher market values and better profitability. These …

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, work-life balance practices with limited face-to-face interactions with … gender diversity while individual incentive with subjective performance may have an opposite effect. Fourth, a rat race model …

across 41 advanced and emerging European economies. We demonstrate that gender board diversity has generally increased, yet … frameworks to demonstrate that few systematic factors are associated with greater gender diversity for both supervisory and …-level gender equality and cultural institutions exhibit differentiated correlations with the presence of women directors in …

The paper examines if workplace gender diversity offers some explanation for the decline of unions in Britain. Using … between workplace union density and gender diversity. Gender and ownership status based sub-group analyses suggest the inverse … relationship to be stronger for male union members and those in the private sector. Gender group size based analysis reveals a …

Online experiment involving 500 participants. We find substantial gender differences in which ideas people are choosing to …-fields in general increase exposure to female ideas but do not lead to an over-representation of either gender conditional on …

and proceeded until the beginning of 2015, when the German parliament enacted a board gender quota. In that period, the … investigate whether the rise in female board representation was accompanied by a change in gender differences in board member …