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Gender diversity, labour in the boardroom and gender quotas
Kunze, Astrid; Scharfenkamp, Katrin - 2022
on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board-director matched panel data for Norway and Germany …, when a Norwegian board gender quota came into effect. We present two novel results that challenge previous thinking about … the effects of board gender quotas on women directors. First, we find a positive impact of employee representation before …
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Human capital, discrimination, and the gender wage gap in Bangladesh
Ahmed, Salma; McGillivray, Mark - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 67 (2015), pp. 506-524
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Do gays shy away from competition? : do lesbians compete too much?
Buser, Thomas; Geijtenbeek, Lydia; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2015
It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this paper we study whether differences in competitive preferences, which have emerged as a likely determinant of labour market differences between men and women, can provide a...
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Is there a penalty for becoming a woman? : is there a premium for becoming a man? ; evidence from a sample of transsexual workers
Geijtenbeek, Lydia; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2015
We study the earnings of transsexuals using Dutch administrative labor force data. First, we compare transsexuals to other women and men, and find that transsexuals earn more than women and less than men. Second, we compare transsexuals before and after transition using worker fixed effects...
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Women and recession revisited
Rubery, Jill; Rafferty, Anthony - In: Work, employment & society : a journal of the British … 27 (2013) 3, pp. 414-432
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Whose jobs are these? : the impact of the proportion of female managers on the number of new management jobs filled by women versus men
Cohen, Lisa E.; Broschak, Joseph P. - In: Administrative science quarterly : ASQ ; dedicated to … 58 (2013) 4, pp. 509-541
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Ethnicity and gender in the labour market in Central and South East Europe
O'Higgins, Shane Niall - 2013
outcomes in the labour market than non-Roma women, in most CSEE countries the gender wage gap is significantly larger amongst … Roma compared to non-Roma. This paper seeks to analyze and explain differences in the gender gap in the wages amongst Roma …. The paper employs a non-parametric matching approach to identify the main factors underlying the gender wage gap …
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Bargaining and the gender wage gap : a direct assessment
Card, David E.; Cardoso, Ana Rute; Kline, Patrick - 2013
information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining power of men and women and assess the impact of the gender gap in … bargaining strength on the male-female wage gap. We show that a model with additive fixed effects for workers and gender … perform a simple decomposition by assigning the firm-specific wage premiums for one gender to the other. Second, we relate the …
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Segregation and gender gaps through the UK's Great Recession
Razzu, Giovanni; Singleton, Carl - 2015
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Do women ask?
Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2016
Women typically earn less than men. The reasons are not fully understood. Previous studies argue that this may be because (i) women 'don't ask' and (ii) the reason they fail to ask is out of concern for the quality of their relationships at work. This account is difficult to assess with standard...
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