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Gender quotas in the boardroom : new evidence from Germany
Fedorets, Alexandra; Gibert, Anna; Burow, Norma - 2019
consisting of the affected supervisory boards and unaffected management boards within the same firm. We find a positive effect on …
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Berkshire's disintermediation: Buffett's New Managerial Model
Cunningham, Lawrwence A. - 2015
Berkshire Hathaway, among history's largest and most successful corporations, shuns middlemen; its chairman, the legendary investor Warren Buffett, excoriates financial intermediaries. The acquisitive conglomerate rarely borrows money, retains brokers, or hires consultants. Its governance is...
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The gender pay gap in the CEOs' labor market
Tani, Massimiliano; Valentine, Andrew; Sharpe, Kieran - 2022
We study the gender pay gap in the labor market for CEOs by analysing 1,174 outsider CEO successions over the past three decades across 18 countries. We find that male and female CEOs receive a similar compensation overall but this masks marked gender differences in the pay structure: namely,...
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Feminist firms
Bennett, Benjamin; Erel, Isil; Stern, Léa; Wang, Zexi - 2019
We explore how lowering labor market frictions for female workers affects corporate performance. Using the staggered adoption of state-level Paid Family Leave acts, we provide causal evidence on the value created by relieving frictions to accessing female talent, for private and public firms....
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Anonymous job applications in Europe
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2012
Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of discrimination. To test whether their intended effects result in practice, in several European countries...
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Does education predict gender role attitudes? : evidence from European datasets
Deole, Sumit S.; Zeydanli, Tugba - 2021
This paper presents the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of individuals' education on their attitudes towards traditional gender roles in Europe. We employ two national panel datasets from the UK and Switzerland and a repeated cross-sectional dataset with information from 13 Western...
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Does education predict gender role attitudes? : evidence from European datasets
Deole, Sumit S.; Zeydanli, Tugba - 2021
This paper presents the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of individuals' education on their attitudes towards traditional gender roles. We employ two national panel datasets from the UK and Switzerland and a repeated cross-sectional dataset with information from 13 Western European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493866
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Fighting gender inequality in Sweden
André, Christophe; Bourrousse, Hugo - 2017
-represented on private company boards, in senior management positions, in many well-paid and influential professions and among …
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Competition for promotion can induce household specialization between equally competitive spouses
Bastani, Spencer; Dickmanns, Lisa; Giebe, Thomas; … - 2022
We analyze equally competitive spouses competing for promotion in their respective workplaces and show that an asymmetric equilibrium featuring household specialization can arise. Examples where the asymmetric equilibrium is welfare-superior to the symmetric equilibrium are highlighted. By...
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Support on the way to the top? : the effect of organisational equal opportunities measures on women's promotion prospects
Wanger, Susanne - 2022
Even though women have been able to increase their participation in management positions to a small extent in recent … years, they are still significantly underrepresented in management positions. Organisational measures to promote gender … organisational measures may increase women's career opportunities or promote the assumption of management positions on a part …
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