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relation to gender and women, the focus has been on the influence of social contexts such as networks, family and household … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography … gendered, reflecting local institutions such as accepted gender norms which may "force" women into specific industries or …
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Occupational segregation significantly contributes to the earnings gender gap worldwide. We look at differences in …
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This paper examines the link between gender diversity in senior corporate positions and financial performance of 2 … million companies in Europe. We document a positive association between corporate return on assets and the share of women in … senior positions and establish two potential channels through which gender diversity may affect firm performance. The …
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decisions, we examine whether banks take into consideration the gender of CFOs when pricing bank loans. We find that in our …
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Women's weak bargaining power against spouses can be a hurdle to their entrepreneurship opportunities. By utilizing the state- and time-varying divorce laws in the U.S., we find that female entrepreneurship increases significantly when the divorce laws give women stronger bargaining power. This...
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estimations clearly indicate that these differences cannot account for gender differences in the promotion probability to a large …
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Restrictions in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic have affected and continue to affect the operations of entrepreneurs. A wide range of support measures were designed to mitigate their consequences. This paper traces the economic development in the various sectors and provides an overview of...
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labor market, such as gender stereotypes and gender identity. This paper examines gender stereotypes and self … survey data used contain detailed information about the managers as well as their employers. We find significant gender … differences between managers with regard to gender stereotyping attitudes. Male managers on average tend to have stronger gender …
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This study examines the impact of board gender diversity on financial misconduct. The findings suggest firms with … gender-diverse boards commit fewer financial reporting mistakes and engage in less fraud. The findings hold after accounting … diminish at higher levels of gender diversity, indicating that impact of gender diversity on decreasing the likelihood of …
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We ran a field experiment to investigate whether individual performance in teams depends on the gender of the leader …
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