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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430668
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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/10008824281
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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/10003858725
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579230
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346565
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The making of a manager : evidence from military officer training
Grönqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik - 2015
We show that officer training during the Swedish military service has a strong positive effect on the probability to attain a managerial position later in life. The most intense type of officer training increases the probability of becoming a civilian manager by about 5 percentage points, or 75...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528312
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The making of a manager: evidence from military officer training
Grönqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik - 2015
We show that officer training during the Swedish military service has a strong positive effect on the probability to attain a managerial position later in life. The most intense type of officer training increases the probability of becoming a civilian manager by about 5 percentage points, or 75...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530522
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Match made at birth? : what traits of a million Swedes tell Us about CEOs
Adams, Renée; Keloharju, Matti; Knüpfer, Samuli - 2014
market for CEOs. We merge data on the traits of more than one million Swedish males, measured at age 18 in a mandatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392582