What are the effects on the labor market and aggregate income of frictions that restrict women's labor decisions that … impede labor participation and composition being equal between men and women? To answer this question, I develop an … increase by 4.3% without women's restrictions to entrepreneurship and by 32.1% without restrictions to entry and …

This paper provides an overview of what has happened over the past fifty years for women as they worked to break … through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We chart the progress of women in higher … education at the college level and beyond and then go on to examine women's representation at the upper levels of academia …

propensities between men and women. The consequences of the assumed differential importance of household and family generate … chance of females in 'unentrepreneurial' cultures being relatively entrepreneurial compared to males. Also women from …

This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top … welfare state where work is the norm for women, self-employment offers a way to avoid the stay-at-home stigma. It allows one …

that women may face higher costs of adopting and using digital tools. Thus, it is unclear to what extent female … likely to use digital tools for internal firm management (e.g., finance). However, women who face higher levels of non … tool use than their male counterparts. We find this relationship is primarily driven by women who start firms in countries …

There was a significant increase in the number of women on executive boards of large companies in Germany from 2020 to … 2021 after years of slow progress: In fall 2021, there were 139 women on the executive boards of the 200 largest companies … the beginning of the DIW Berlin Women Executives Barometer in 2006. There were also markedly more female executive board …

This policy brief on women in entrepreneurship was produced by the OECD and the European Commission. It explores the … that their policies help women to participate in the labour market. This policy brief is part of a series of documents …

The proportion of women on the boards of large companies in Germany continued to increase during 2020. In the fourth …, growth was slow, as it was in some of the other groups of companies as well: The proportion of women on the executive boards … 2013, there was even a stagnation in the proportion of women on the executive boards of the DAX 30 companies. The minimum …