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Expansions in paid parental leave and mothers' economic progress
Corekcioglu, Gozde; Francesconi, Marco; Kunze, Astrid - 2022
We examine the impact of government-funded universal paid parental leave extensions on the likelihood that mothers reach top-pay jobs and executive positions, using eight Norwegian reforms. Up to a quarter of a century after childbirth, such reforms neither helped nor hurt mothers' chances to be...
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Expansions in paid parental leave and mothers' economic progress
Corekcioglu, Gozde; Francesconi, Marco; Kunze, Astrid - 2022
We examine the impact of government-funded universal paid parental leave extensions on the likelihood that mothers reach top-pay jobs and executive positions, using eight Norwegian reforms. Up to a quarter of a century after childbirth, such reforms neither helped nor hurt mothers' chances to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013418923
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Gender Quotas and Women's Political Leadership
O'Brien, Diana Z.; Rickne, Johanna Karin - 2014
Though more than 100 countries have adopted gender quotas, the impacts of these reforms on women’s political leadership remain largely unknown. We exploit a quasi-experiment — a zipper quota imposed by the Swedish Social Democratic national party on municipal party groups — to examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014142248
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Can personality traits explain glass ceilings?
Collischon, Matthias - 2018
This paper investigates whether personality traits can explain glass ceilings (increasing gender wage gaps across the wage distribution). Using longitudinal survey data from Germany, the UK, and Australia, I combine unconditional quantile regressions with wage gap decompositions to identify the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011824923
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The glass ceiling revisited : empirical evidence from the German academic career ladder
Heinrichs, Katrin; Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2020
Women are underrepresented in leadership positions - academia is no exception. Using data on careers of doctoral graduates in Germany, we study gender differences in the decision to stay at university as a postdoctoral researcher and in the intention to become a professor. We find that gender...
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Gender sorting and the glass ceiling in high-tech firms
Fernandez, Roberto M.; Campero, Santiago - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 70 (2017) 1, pp. 73-104
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Estimating gender differences in access to jobs
Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - 2012
This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a non-parametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009631455
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Gender stereotyping and self-stereotyping attitudes : a large field study of managers
Eriksson, Tor; Smith, Nina; Smith, Valdemar - 2017
The dearth of women in top managerial positions is characterized by a high persistence and insensitivity to changes and differences in institutions and policies. This suggests it could be caused by slowly changing social norms and attitudes in the labor market, such as gender stereotypes and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715918
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Female Representation but Male Rule? Party Competition and the Political Glass Ceiling
Folke, Olle; Rickne, Johanna Karin - 2012
numbers to study the drivers of a gender gap in political influence among elected politicians. Using panel data for the … careers of 35.000 Swedish municipal politicians over six election cycles we first document the said gender gap. Women are … meritocracy is not enforced. Positive correlations between competition and measures of competence for elected politicians of both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014163531
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Is there a glass ceiling over Germany?
Collischon, Matthias - 2017
This paper analyzes the gender wage gap across the wage distribution using 2010 data from the German statistical agency. I investigate East and West Germany and the public sector separately to account for potential heterogeneities in wage gaps. I apply unconditional and conditional quantile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011745529