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Equal opportunity? : gender gaps in CEO appointments and executive pay
Keloharju, Matti; Knüpfer, Samuli; Tåg, Joacim - 2016
This paper uses exceptionally rich data on Swedish corporate executives and their personal characteristics to study gender gaps in CEO appointments and pay. Both gaps are sizeable: 18% for CEO appointments and 27% for pay. At most one-eight of the gaps can be attributed to observable gender...
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Educational Mismatch and Promotions to Managerial Positions : A Test of the Career Mobility Theory
Grunau, Philipp - 2018
Career mobility theory suggests that given a certain occupation, schooling improves upward mobility in terms of … promoted and that this career mobility advantage is more pronounced in the early stages of their working lives. By contrast …. Altogether, these findings strongly support the career mobility theory. Furthermore, by differentiating between internal and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929528
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Equal opportunity? : gender gaps in CEO appointments and executive pay
Keloharju, Matti; Knüpfer, Samuli; Tåg, Joacim - 2016
We use exceptionally rich data on all business, economics, and engineering graduates in Sweden to study women's career … career progression in the five years after the first childbirth substantially contributes to the female disadvantage. During …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011626552
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Interrelationships among Locus of Control and Years in Management and Unemployment: Differences by Gender
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2010
This paper focuses on gender differences in the role played by locus of control within a model that predicts outcomes for men and women at two opposite poles of the labour market: high level managerial / leadership positions and unemployment. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600909
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Interrelationships among locus of control and years in management and unemployment : differences by gender
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2010
This paper focuses on gender differences in the role played by locus of control within a model that predicts outcomes for men and women at two opposite poles of the labour market: high level managerial / leadership positions and unemployment. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824281
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Base salaries, bonus payments, and work absence among managers in a German company
Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
company are analyzed. The main findings are: (1) base salaries increase significantly with age, whereas bonuses decrease with …Questions about compensation structures and incentive effects of pay-for-performance components are important for firms … insider econometric evidence on the structure and the incentive effects of fixed base salaries, paid bonuses, and agreed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294492
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Managerial Capital and the Market for CEOs
Murphy, Kevin J.; Zabojnik, Jan - 2006
This paper reconciles two pronounced trends in U.S. corporate governance: the increase in pay levels for top executives, and the increasing prevalence of appointing CEOs through external hiring rather than internal promotions. We propose that these trends reflect a shift in the relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011940724
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Leadership Skills and Wages
Kuhn, Peter; Weinberger, Catherine - 2002
American business seems to be infatuated with its workers? ?leadership? skills. Is there such a thing, and is it rewarded in labor markets? Using the Project Talent, NLS72 and High School and Beyond datasets, we show that men who occupied leadership positions in high school earn more as adults,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262770
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Glass ceiling effect and earnings: the gender pay gap in managerial positions in Germany
Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2009
Although there are a variety of studies on the gender pay gap, only a few relate to managerial positions. The present study attempts to fill this gap. Managers in private companies in Germany are a highly selective group of women and men, who differ only marginally in their human capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271151
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Occupational sex segregation and management-level wages in Germany: What role does firm size play?
Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2012
The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed-effects models. It deals with the effect of occupational sex segregation on wages, and the extent to which wage penalties for managers in predominantly female occupations are...
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