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All on Board? New Evidence on Board Gender Diversity from a Large Panel of Firms

Tyrowicz, Joanna - 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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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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Why so Few Women on Boards of Directors? Empirical Evidence from Danish Companies 1997-2007

Parrotta, Pierpaolo - 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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The Gender Composition of Corporate Boards and Firm Performance : Evidence from Russia

Garanina, Tatiana - 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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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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Do Board Gender Quotas Matter? Selection, Performance and Stock Market Effects

Ferrari, Giulia - 2018

From business to politics and academia, the economic effects of the introduction of gender quotas are under scrutiny. We provide new evidence based on the introduction of mandatory gender quotas for boards of directors of Italian companies listed on the stock market. Comparing before and after...

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Gender Quotas : Challenging the Boards, Performance, and the Stock Market

Ferrari, Giulia - 2016

In 2011, Italy introduced gender quotas for boards of directors of companies listed on its stock market. Comparing before and after the reform within firms, we find that quotas are associated with a higher share of female board directors, higher levels of education of board members, and a lower...

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What Explains the Rise in CEO Pay in Germany? A Panel Data Analysis for 1977-2009

Fabbri, Francesca - 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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Female-Led Firms : Performance and Risk Attitudes

Parrotta, Pierpaolo - 2013

This paper investigates the relationship between gender of the CEO and composition of the board of directors (female chairman and share of women in the boardroom) and firm's risk attitudes measured as variability in four firm outcome variables (investments, profits, return to equity, and sales)....

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The Gender Pay Gap in Top Corporate Jobs in Denmark : Glass Ceilings, Sticky Floors or Both?

Smith, Nina - 2010

This paper analyses the gender gap in compensation for CEOs, Vice-Directors, and potential top executives in the 2000 largest Danish private companies based on a panel data set of employer-employees data covering the period 1996-2005. During the period, the overall gender gap in compensation for...

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