This paper uses unique firm-level panel data from Japan and provides new evidence on the possible impact on gender … (WLB) practices that are developed in part to enhance gender equality as well as performance-related pay (PRP) that is one … period part-time work is found to result in a decrease in the proportion of female directors (or exacerbating gender …

Performance Work System (HPWS) is associated with greater gender diversity in the workplace while there is little evidence that … the HPWS reduces the gender pay gap. Second, work-life balance practices with limited face-to-face interactions with … gender diversity while individual incentive with subjective performance may have an opposite effect. Fourth, a rat race model …

1985 amendments to the Labor Standards Law (LSL) in Japan as a natural experiment. The original LSL of 1947 prohibited …

This paper uses unique firm-level panel data from Japan and provides new evidence on the possible impact on gender … (WLB) practices that are developed in part to enhance gender equality as well as performance-related pay (PRP) that is one … period part-time work is found to result in a decrease in the proportion of female directors (or exacerbating gender …