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Women typically earn less than men. The reasons are not fully understood. Previous studies argue that this may be because (i) women 'don't ask' and (ii) the reason they fail to ask is out of concern for the quality of their relationships at work. This account is difficult to assess with standard...
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, 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 …. -- Asset managers ; gender ; qualification ; segregation ; attitudes …
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, 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 …
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Using data on Executive Compensation from Standard and Poor's ExecuComp, this paper explores the gender gap in top … narrowing of the uncorrected gender pay gap from the mid-1990s. Women top executives earn between 8% to 25% less than male … executives after controlling for differences in company size, occupational title, and industry. The magnitude of the gender pay …
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This paper examines the role of women helping women in corporate America. Using a merged panel of directors and executives for large U.S. corporations between 1997 and 2009, we find a positive association between the female share of the board of directors in the previous year and the female...
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We use unique worker-plant matched panel data to measure differences in wage changes experienced by workers displaced from closing plants. We observe larger losses among women than men, comparing workers who move from the same closing plant to the same new firm. However, we find a significantly...
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We investigate how presentation modality (text vs. video) and executive gender influence evaluators' perceptions of … competence assessment of the CEO; however, this result is largely gender dependent. Male-delivered financial reports enhance …
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characteristics, is this gap explained by segregation of women in low-wage firms, or by gender inequality within a given firm? To … between-firm (sorting) and within-firm heterogeneity (bargaining) on the gender wage gap. We use a two-way fixed effect wage … model, in which firm fixed effects differ between male and female employees to account for within-firm gender differences in …
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Using a two-stage decomposition technique, this paper analyzes the role of occupational segregation in explaining the probability of women vis-'a-vis men of finding high-paying jobs over the life-cycle. Jobs are classified as highly-remunerated if their compensation exceeds a threshold, which is...
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Gender gaps in leadership roles may be reduced by increasing the number of women in career stages that typically … women to a career pipeline can reduce gender gaps in higher-ranking positions over time. Specifically, we examine the …
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