A vast labor literature has found evidence of a glass ceiling, whereby women are under-represented among senior … participants about the ability of the men and women in senior management. As such, financial data hold the promise of potentially …

- including absenteeism - to set wages. Since men are absent from work because of health and shirking reasons, while women face an … seniority, as employers learn more about their workers' true productivity. Finally, we calculate the earnings cost for women …

Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This … and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women are more likely than men to select team-based compensation in our … baseline treatment, but women and men join teams with equal frequency when we add an efficiency advantage to team production …

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 …

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 goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce … barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and … states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, we explore the influence of women in top …

The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of management ranks of firms help reduce … barriers to advancement in the workplace faced by women. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all … industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, we explore the influence of women …