Securing the well-being, protection of human rights and equality on the ground of age, gender, race, nationality etc along with sustainable economic development becomes the most important goal for any country. Gender differences in labor market are a problem of many countries. Being a larger...

Securing the well-being, protection of human rights and equality on the ground of age, gender, race, nationality etc along with sustainable economic development becomes the most important goal for any country. Gender differences in labor market are a problem of many countries. Being a larger...

This paper investigates the effect of CFO gender on corporate tax aggressiveness. Focusing on firms that experience a male-to-female CFO transition, the paper compares those firms’ degree of tax aggressiveness during the pre- and post-transition periods. Using the probability of tax...

This paper investigates the effect of CFO gender on corporate financial reporting decision-making. Focusing on firms that experience changes of CFO from male to female, the paper compares the firms’ degree of accounting conservatism between pre- and post-transition periods. We find that female...

The Latvian economy has been the most crisis affected economy so far in the whole territory of the EU. The expected GDP fall during the year 2009 is close to 20%, the unemployment rate is approaching 20%, and prices have already started to fall. There are major fiscal problems in the economy....

The Latvian economy has been the most crisis affected economy so far in the whole territory of the EU. The expected GDP fall during the year 2009 is close to 20%, the unemployment rate is approaching 20%, and prices have already started to fall. There are major fiscal problems in the economy....