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effect of an organization’s human qualities on financial success; 3) its findings argue for greater gender diversity at the …It is a well documented fact that there are few women in top executive positions in business organizations. In this … research I examine the effect of having women in top executive positions on an organization’s human qualities (such as being …
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weaknesses. Such an association signifies the importance of board diversity because diversification strengthens corporate …
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We explore the changes in the wage gap of caste and gender groups in India. Traditional Hindu society divided people …. Women in India have typically been restricted to the household and their participation in the formal labor market has begun … into social classes based on the caste system. The lowest of the castes have traditionally been economically disadvantaged …
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specific challenges of managing diversity within their workforces. However, the extent to which employers and educators have …
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problems the more gender-diverse the board is, and women are more likely to join monitoring committees. These results suggest …-diverse boards. However, the average effect of gender diversity on firm performance is negative. This negative effect is driven by … that gender-diverse boards allocate more effort to monitoring. Accordingly, we find that chief executive officer turnover …
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gender. The wage differential due to gender, and not to differences in labor characteristics, is called discrimination. The … that there was a small but significant wage discrimination in favor of women in 1997 and it disappeared by 2000. This … goal of this project is to estimate the evolution of the wages differentials and wage discrimination between males and …
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determining the gap in wages between men and women and the extent to which gender discrimination affects wage inequality. I model …, nationally representative Bulgaria Integrated Household Survey, I examine whether gender discrimination is an important factor … of this differential is due to discrimination, or more precisely, due to differences in how men and women are rewarded …
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Average gender pay gaps have absorbed the interest of economists for many years. Morerecently studies have begun to … explore the degree to which observed gender wage gapsmight differ across the wages distribution. The stylised facts from these … studies,summarised in the first part of the paper, are that the gender pay gap in Europe istypically increasing across the …
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This research attempts to determine if a customer's visible physical characteristics influence retail service delivery. The results of this study suggest that black and male customers wait significantly longer than white and female customers at retail customer service counters. In addition,...
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