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Do women top managers help women advance? A panel study using EEO-1 records
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - 2011
also find that the positive influence of women in top leadership positions on managerial gender diversity diminishes over …
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The evolution of bank boards of directors in New York, 1840-1950
White, Eugene N.; Bodenhorn, Howard - 2014
Contemporary bank governance is criticized for manager-dominated (insider) boards of directors, but from the beginning of the nineteenth century, bank presidents appear also to have operated as chairmen of the boards of directors. However, the managers were constrained by a variety of rules that...
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Vielfalt als Wettbewerbsfaktor nutzen: Diversity Management in Hamburg; Ergebnisse einer Unternehmensbefragung
Klaffke, Martin - 2008
The study analyses the application of Diversity Management among companies of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and elaborates differences between small and medium-sized as well as large companies. The results indicate that Hamburg companies are not extensively familiar with the concept...
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Team Diversity und Teamleistung im Kontext von geteilter sozialer Identität: Ein Erklärungsansatz über Kurvilinearitäten
Kirch, Johannes; Tomenendal, Matthias - 2015
Die Forschung zur Auswirkung von funktionaler Team Diversity auf Teamleistung hat bisher gemischte Ergebnisse gebracht. Im Kontext der sozialen Identität eines Teams werden im vorliegenden Beitrag zunächst Hypothesen über die Beziehungen zwischen funktionaler Vielfalt, Teamvertrauen,...
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Gender differences in business performance: Evidence from the characteristics of business owners survey
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - 2009
Using confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we investigate the performance of female-owned businesses, making comparisons to male-owned businesses. Using regression estimates and a decomposition technique, we explore the role that human capital, especially through prior work...
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Do Austrian Men and Women Become more Equal? At Least in Terms of Labor Supply!
Wernhart, Georg; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008
We study the development of wage elasticity of labor supply for Austrian men and women over time using comparable and representative survey data for the 1980s and 1990s. The elasticity of men is relatively low and constant over time, similar to the behavior of single women. Most remarkable is...
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Unemployment and Subsequent Wages: Does Gender Matter?
Wiklund, Fredrik - 1999
Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job? This paper addresses that question using the 1991 wave of the Level of Living Survey. The results suggest that men who experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of...
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Male vs. female guest-worker migration: Does it matter for fertility in the source country?
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011
Men's additional income from their guest-worker employment generates a pure income effect, which increases fertility. The timing of women's higher-wage employment relative to child bearing is crucial for its effect on fertility. If women work abroad during the same time period when they can bear...
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Deciding to decide: gender, leadership and risk-taking in groups
Ertac, Seda; Gurdal, Mehmet Yigit - 2010
, in comparison to their individual decisions. We observe a striking difference between males and females, with a much …
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Gender segregation in the workplace and wage gaps: Evidence from urban Mexico 1994 - 2004
Calónico, Sebastián; Ñopo, Hugo - 2008
This paper analyzes the evolution of gender segregation in the workplace in Mexico between 1994 and 2004, using a … matching comparisons technique to explore the role of individual and family characteristics in determining gender segregation … gender wage gaps by 5 percentage points, while the elimination of occupational segregation would have increased gender wage …
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