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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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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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There is a scarcity of women and minorities at the apex of political power. This paper formalizes the concept of the glass ceiling for political organizations and builds on previous research to suggest four testable criteria. A glass ceiling exists if women and/or racial minorities (1) are...
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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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This paper analyzes the gender wage gap across the wage distribution using 2010 data from the German statistical agency … men and women in distributions conditional and unconditional on covariates. The results indicate increasing gender wage …
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inequities. We then go on to consider possible explanations for the continuing gender differences and some of the empirical …
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that easier management of maternity risk reduces the gender gap in entrepreneurship and that maternity risk is more …
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We study the association between the gender of the highest-ranking manager (the CEO) and gender differences in …
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Using matched employer-employee data from the 2004 and 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Surveys (WERS) for Britain … we find a raw gender wage gap (GWG) in hourly wages of around 0.18-0.21 log points. The regression-adjusted gap is around … half that. However, the GWG declines substantially with the increasing share of female managers in the workplace. The gap …
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We analyze the link between the presence of female managers and the size of the firm-level gender pay gap, looking … gender wage inequality is associated with higher shares of female workers, but not female managers. …
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