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This paper investigates the effects of Spain's large recent immigration wave on the labor supply of highly skilled native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply of affordable household services, such as housekeeping and child or elderly care. As a result,...
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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 gaps related to aiming for a professorship can be fully explained by … observable characteristics other than gender. On the contrary, even after adding controls for an array of characteristics …
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Across countries, banks have less gender diverse boards than other firms. Bank board diversity is particularly low in … countries with greater gender gaps in PISA math scores and lower average math scores. We find similar results using state …. Female directors are more likely to have an MBA in banks, especially in countries with greater gender gaps in math scores …
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This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top of the income distribution are more likely to enter self-employment, which is also associated with a lower income. This can be interpreted as a career choice that produces a...
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that the digital gender gap is not uniform across digital tools; female entrepreneurs use digital tools that support …
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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 gender differences in risk-taking behavior among managers in a female-dominated industry. Using …-taking than female coaches on average. We also find a U-shaped age effect that is independent of gender, meaning that young and … previous studies on gender differences in risk preferences, and thereby emphasize the importance of considering the industrial …
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other traits, such as gender? We answer this question by examining the impact of a successful school-expansion program on … prioritization of leader competence over gender, boosting the share of women among candidates and state parliamentarians and the …
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We study workers' reactions to changes in the gender composition of top management during a merger or acquisition …
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We identify the causal effect of gender bias on access to finance. We extract an exogenous measure of gender bias from … detailed dataset on 6,000 small business firms from 17 countries and find that in countries with higher gender bias, female … driven by credit risk differences between female- and male-owned firms in high-gender bias countries or by any idiosyncrasies …
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