This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because … establishment as well as in combination with an establishment change. Women with children are 1.6 percentage points less likely … promoted than women without children; this is what we refer to as the family gap in climbing the career. We find that mothers …

This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because … establishment as well as in combination with an establishment change. Women with children are 1.6 percentage points less likely … promoted than women without children; this is what we refer to as the family gap in climbing the career. We find that mothers …

The supply of women into senior management has changed little despite well-intentioned efforts. We argue that the … biggest effect is from supply-side factors that inhibit females' decision to enter competitions: Women are under …-confident about winning, men are over-confident; women are more risk averse than men in some settings; and, most importantly, women …

and, therefore, the latter face a smaller likelihood of promotion. Although men are promoted more often than women …, empirical results show that women have shorter survival times to promotion than men. Also, previous promotions are stronger …Using a panel of new firms and their employees, this paper studies the promotion opportunities for older workers within …

This paper presents a novel model of promotion within the firm which sheds new light on the interplay between working … hours and the odds of subsequent promotion. The model's key feature is the coexistence of two different sources of … reasonable set of conditions, the firm may find it optimal to adopt the information revelation strategy for women but not for men …

promotion rates in economics. Furthermore, the progress of women has stalled relative to that in other disciplines in the past … extent to which these trends encompass the most elite departments, and how women's representation across fields of study … within economics has changed. We then review the recent literature on other dimensions of women's relative position in the …

We formulate an empirical model of promotion with dynamic self-selection where the current promotion probability … specific attributes, time varying firm specific variables (firm size and profits) as well as endogenous past promotion … histories. We examine the causal effect of previous promotion histories (as measured by realized speed of promotion) on future …

profitability (productivity) of his team and of the promotion-seeking efforts of his employees. Our first main result clarifies the … examine the effect of the employees' productivity on their probability of promotion and on the extent of the resources wasted … candidate for promotion) is less likely to be promoted and the conditions under which higher employee's productivity results in …

opportunities of promotion using the British Household Panel Survey data set. Our analysis shows that the perceived probability of … promotion increases with working time and that this result is robust to various econometric specifications. …