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Female Leadership and Gender Gap within Firms : Evidence from an Italian Board Reform
Maida, Agata - 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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Teamwork, Leadership and Gender
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2022
We ran a field experiment to investigate whether individual performance in teams depends on the gender of the leader. About 430 students from an Italian University took an intermediate exam that was partly evaluated on the basis of teamwork. Students were randomly matched in teams of three and...
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Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs
Gobillon, Laurent - 2012
This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a non-parametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it for...
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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,...
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Do Gays Shy Away from Competition? Do Lesbians Compete Too Much?
Buser, Thomas - 2015
It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this paper we study whether differences in competitive preferences, which have emerged as a likely determinant of labour market differences between men and women, can provide a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014022
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What If Your Boss is a Woman? Work Organization, Work-Life Balance and Gender Discrimination at the Workplace
Lucifora, Claudio - 2016
In this paper, we investigate the association between female leadership, work organization practices and perceived gender discrimination within firms. Using data for 30 European countries for the period 1995-2010, we find that having a female "boss" is associated with lower overall gender...
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Gender Stereotyping and Self-Stereotyping Attitudes : A Large Field Study of Managers
Eriksson, Tor - 2017
-stereotyping in a large cross section of (about 2,970) managers at different job levels in (1,875) Danish private-sector firms. The … survey data used contain detailed information about the managers as well as their employers. We find significant gender … differences between managers with regard to gender stereotyping attitudes. Male managers on average tend to have stronger gender …
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014235727
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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 … pay gap than women on higher management levels. The results are similar for East and West Germany, despite the lower … gender pay gap and more gender egalitarian social norms in East Germany. From a policy perspective, we conclude that …
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The Emergence of Male Leadership in Competitive Environments
Reuben, Ernesto - 2011
We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as leaders than is suggested by their individual past performance....
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