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Why are so few females promoted into CEO and vice-president positions? Danish empirical evidence 1997-2007
Smith, Nina; Smith, Valdemar; Verner, Mette - 2011
In most OECD countries, only very few women succeed in reaching top executive positions. In this paper, the probability … disappearance of statistical discrimination against women who succeed getting into career track positions. The results reflect that … the hiring decision and the decision to enter a top position as 'number one', i.e. CEO, in the organization is very …
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Are women more credit constrained? Experimental evidence on gender and microenterprise returns
de Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - 2008
microenterprises, much higher than market interest rates. But returns were found to be much higher among men than among women, and … indeed were not different from zero for women. In this paper, we explore different explanations for the lower returns among … local areas are important. We do find evidence that women invested the grants differently from men. A smaller share of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275824
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Behavioral foundations of microcredit: Experimental and survey evidence from rural India
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Morduch, Jonathan - 2010
experimental measures of time discounting and risk aversion for villagers in south India to highlight behavioral features of … microcredit. Conditional on borrowing from any source, women with present-biased preferences are more likely than others to borrow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269753
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The French Productivity Puzzle
Askenazy, Philippe; Erhel, Christine - 2015
Since 2008, France experiences a sharp productivity slowdown. Both output per hour and total factor productivity are particularly deceptive in the market economy. This recent trend contrasts with the acceleration of productivity during the previous crisis in the 1990's and the continuous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307397
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Using Social Connections and Financial Incentives to Solve Coordination Failure: A Quasi-Field Experiment in India's Manufacturing Sector
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Li, Sherry Xin; … - 2018
women. These findings can be explained by pro-social behavior of workers in socially connected teams. …
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Noncognitive Abilities and Within-Group Wage Inequality
Egger, Hartmut; Grossmann, Volker - 2004
This paper argues that endogenous restructuring processes within firms towards productivityenhancing human resource activities, triggered by advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) and rising supply of educated workers, are typically associated with higher demand for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261792
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Reforms and Productivity Dynamics in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
McGoldrick, Peter; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2004
Institutional change has taken place gradually since 1978 for State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in the Industrial Sector of China. In this paper we estimate the effect of deep reform (the right to hire and fire labour, buy and sell capital and operate on international markets) on the productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261956
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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers
Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004
We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262073
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Literacy traps: Society-wide education and individual skill premia
Atal, Vidya; Basu, Kaushik; Gray, John; Lee, Travis - 2009
Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy trap in which each individual finds it not worthwhile investing in higher skills because others are not high-skilled. The model sheds light on educational policy. It is...
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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development : Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
Sabirianova, Klara Z.; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2005
Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...
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