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The Women Empowering Effect of Higher Education
Elsayed, Ahmed; Shirshikova, Alina - 2023
-lasting positive effects on labor market and marriage outcomes, particularly for women. We give insights on internal migration as a … outcome of university construction. Local universities reduced men's migration for study and women's migration for early …, particularly for women …
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Female Leadership and Gender Gap within Firms : Evidence from an Italian Board Reform
Maida, Agata - 2019
for corporate board membership. The main aim of these laws is breaking the "glass ceiling" which prevents women from … evidence of spillover effects on the representation of women in top executive or top earnings positions. Our results confirm …
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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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Do Trustees and Administrators Matter? Diversifying the Faculty Across Gender Lines
Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 2010
Our paper focuses on the role that the gender composition of the leaders of American colleges and universities - trustees, presidents/chancellors, and provosts/academic vice presidents - plays in influencing the rate at which academic institutions diversify their faculty across gender lines. We...
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Do Women Top Managers Help Women Advance? A Panel Study Using EEO-1 Records
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana - 2012
The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce … barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and … states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, we explore the influence of women in top …
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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 …-World War II mandatory reconstruction policy, which compelled women to work in the rubble removal and reconstruction process … era generated persistent adverse effects on women's long-term labor market outcomes. An increase in marriage and fertility …
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Networks, Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurial Performance in Africa : Evidence from Eswatini
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2019
This paper analyzes the role of networks in access of women entrepreneurs to start-up capital and firm performance in … capital is associated with better sales performance for both men and women entrepreneurs. Women entrepreneurs start their … of their firm and sales level. However, women with higher education start their firms with more capital than their less …
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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
that it is primarily single women that drive the well-established empirical relationship between personal wealth and … business start-ups. Therefore, public policies specifically targeted at relieving the liquidity constraints of women could help …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023768
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Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Swaziland
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2016
genders with higher start-up capital record better sales performance than those with smaller amounts of capital. For women … countries, women entrepreneurs in Swaziland have smaller start-up capital and are less likely to fund it from formal sources … than men. Among women entrepreneurs, those with college education and confident in their skills tend to start their firms …
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