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Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of … - 2009
According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female … discrimination, i.e. a low share of female employees relatively to the industry average, have significantly shorter survival rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568020
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Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - CESifo - 2009
According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female … discrimination, i.e. a low share of female employees relatively to the industry average, have significantly shorter survival rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572488
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Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share of female workers at the end of the first year after entry. Further, we find that firms with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008549998
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Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female … discrimination, i.e. a low share of female employees relatively to the industry average, have significantly shorter survival rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509366
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Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share of female workers at the end of the first year after entry. Further, we find that firms with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509378
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Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of … - 2009
In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share of female workers at the end of the first year after entry. Further, we find that firms with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458567
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Sexism at work
Erikssoon, Björn; Karlsson, Tobias; Leunig, Tim; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
a simple model of sex-based discrimination. Instead, the gender wage gap can be decomposed into two components. First …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010598727
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Gender, Productivity and the Nature of Work and Pay: Evidence from the Late Nineteenth-Century Tobacco Industry
Eriksson, Björn; Karlsson, Tobias; Leunig, Tim; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
a simple model of sex-based discrimination. Instead, the gender wage gap can be decomposed into two components. First …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644037
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Does Female Leadership Boost Firm Profitability?
Kotiranta, Annu; Kovalainen, Anne; Rouvinen, Petri - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007
account a number other factors (such as firm size and industry) possibly affecting profitability. The share of woman board …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818453
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Work-Life Balance Practices and the Gender Gap in Job Satisfaction in the UK: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Asadullah, Niaz; Fernández, Rosa M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper examines the role of work-life balance practices (WLB) in explaining the “paradox of the contented female worker”. After establishing that females report higher levels of job satisfaction than men in the UK, we test whether firm characteristics such as WLB and gender segregation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822882