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The paper examines if workplace gender diversity offers some explanation for the decline of unions in Britain. Using … between workplace union density and gender diversity. Gender and ownership status based sub-group analyses suggest the inverse … relationship to be stronger for male union members and those in the private sector. Gender group size based analysis reveals a …
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This paper studies economic effects of the gender composition of corporate boards, employing a new and unique …. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative measures of gender diversity, and several performance indicators, we … find some evidence that companies with gender-diverse boards have higher market values and better profitability. These …
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female labor forces. We also find that the positive influence of women in top leadership positions on managerial gender …
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We investigate the determinants of housing satisfaction in twelve EU countries. To do so, we use panel data covering the period 1994-2001, which allows us to control for individual heterogeneity. We carry out separate estimates on the determinants of housing satisfaction for homeowners and for...
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and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …
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Corporate governance literature argues that board diversity is potentially positively related to firm performance. This study examines the relationship in the case of women in top executive jobs and on boards of directors. We use data for the 2500 largest Danish firms observed during the period...
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Despite a conventional wisdom that female board members positively impact firm performance, a thorough examination of the research to date reveals no consensus that female board members have either a positive or negative effect on firm performance. We build the largest dataset of Australian...
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on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and …
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female labor forces. We also find that the positive influence of women in top leadership positions on managerial gender …
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This paper attempts to establish empirically the link between workplace gender diversity and employee job-related well … unobserved workplace heterogeneity. I find that gender diversity is associated with lower employee well-being among women in …
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