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The gender pay gap in the CEOs' labor market

Tani, Massimiliano; Valentine, Andrew; Sharpe, Kieran - 2022

We study the gender pay gap in the labor market for CEOs by analysing 1,174 outsider CEO successions over the past three decades across 18 countries. We find that male and female CEOs receive a similar compensation overall but this masks marked gender differences in the pay structure: namely,...

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The gender composition of corporate boards and firm performance : evidence from Russia

Garanina, Tatiana; Muravyev, Alexander - 2019

This paper studies economic effects of the gender composition of corporate boards, employing a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded on the national stock market between 1998 and 2014. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative...

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All on board? : new evidence on board gender diversity from a large panel of firms

Tyrowicz, Joanna; Terjesen, Siri; Mazurek, Jakub - 2020

Using a unique database of over 20 million firms over two decades, we examine the industry sector and national institution drivers of the prevalence of women directors on supervisory and management boards in both public and private firms across 41 advanced and emerging European economies. We...

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Has the push for equal gender representation changed the role of women on German supervisory boards?

Bozhinov, Viktor; Koch, Christopher; Schank, Thorsten - 2017

In Germany, an intensive public debate about increasing female participation in leadership positions started in 2009 and proceeded until the beginning of 2015, when the German parliament enacted a board gender quota. In that period, the share of women on supervisory boards for 111 German...

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Gender diversity, labour in the boardroom and gender quotas

Kunze, Astrid; Scharfenkamp, Katrin - 2022

This study investigates boards of (non-executive) directors and whether employee representation has a positive effect on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board-director matched panel data for Norway and Germany, which contain unique information on whether a director...

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Women at the top in developing countries : evidence from firm-level data

Sekkat, Khalid; Szafarz, Ariane; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015

This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a female dominant shareholder has a significantly higher...

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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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Female leadership and gender gap within firms : evidence from an Italian board reform

Maida, Agata; Weber, Andrea - 2019

Over the last decade, several countries have followed the Norwegian example and introduced laws mandating gender quota for corporate board membership. The main aim of these laws is breaking the "glass ceiling" which prevents women from advancing into top corporate positions. In this paper, we...

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Female board representation and corporate performance : a review and new estimates for Australia

Bayly, Nicholas; Breunig, Robert; Wokker, Chris - 2023

Despite a conventional wisdom that female board members positively impact firm performance, a thorough examination of the research to date reveals no consensus that female board members have either a positive or negative effect on firm performance. We build the largest dataset of Australian...

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What explains the rise in CEO pay in Germany? : a panel data analysis for 1977 - 2009

Fabbri, Francesca; Marin, Dalia - 2012

the literature on executive pay: the manager power hypothesis and the efficient pay hypothesis. We find support for the … manager power hypothesis for Germany as executives tend to be rewarded when the sector is doing well rather than the firm they … work for. We reject, however, the efficient pay hypothesis as CEO pay and the demand for managers increases in Germany in …

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