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More Female Manager Hires Through More Female Managers? Evidence from Germany
Bossler, Mario - 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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Women in Management and the Gender Pay Gap
Wrohlich, Katharina - 2023
-level management, indicating that women managers with closer interactions with their subordinates have a higher impact on the gender …
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Do Women Top Managers Help Women Advance? A Panel Study Using EEO-1 Records
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana - 2012
increase in the share of female top managers is associated with subsequent increases in the share of women in mid …
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Women Make Houses, Women Make Homes
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2017
This paper examines the persistent effects of historical labor market institutions and policies on women's long-term labor market outcomes. We quantify these enduring effects by exploring quasi-experimental variation in Germany's post-World War II mandatory reconstruction policy, which compelled...
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Women at the Top in Developing Countries : Evidence from Firm-Level Data
Sekkat, Khalid - 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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The Rise of Female Entrepreneurs : New Evidence on Gender Differences in Liquidity Constraints
Sauer, Robert M. - 2015
Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since the start of the Great Recession. In this paper, we re-examine the impact of liquidity constraints on new business formation in an instrumental variables framework, using a...
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Women Do Not Play Their Aces : The Consequences of Shying Away
Claussen, Jörg - 2016
The underrepresentation of women at the top of hierarchies is often explained by gender differences in preferences. We find support for this claim by analyzing a large dataset from an online card game community, a stylized yet natural setting characterized by self-selection into an uncertain,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001861
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Breaking the Glass Ceiling? The Effect of Board Quotas on Female Labor Market Outcomes in Norway
Bertrand, Marianne - 2014
In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40 percent representation of each gender on the board of publicly limited liability companies. The primary objective of this reform was to increase the representation of women in top positions in the corporate sector and decrease gender disparity in...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014238549
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A Tale of Parallel Processes of Gender (In-)Equality : How Big is the Glass Ceilings for MENA Women?
Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal; Pastore, Francesco - 2022
In all the MENA countries considered in this study, namely Jordan, Egypt and Tunisia, there has been a significant decrease in the female labor force participation rate over the last two decades. Moreover, existing analysis and the anecdotal evidence suggest that it may be problematic for women...
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