This paper focuses on gender differences in the role played by locus of control within a model that predicts outcomes … unemployment. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the extent to which gender differences occur in … the development of one particular aspect of personality, that is, locus of control. Overall gender differences were more …

We investigate the relation between board gender diversity and firm profitability using the control function (CF …

the existence of a gender gap in self-promotion and its causal link with modesty norms. Using a novel experiment, we show … across gender is determined by women's social-image concerns of being perceived as immodest and not because of an underlying … leads to an increase in self-promotion by women and, (ii) contributes to a reduction in the gender gap in self …

, despite tough competition in this industry. Interestingly, the gender gap exists only for managers of smaller funds, i.e. at …. Going further, this gender gap is limited to large firms. Explanations may refer to large firms using market power in the …