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We investigate the gender pay gap in top corporate jobs for 2001-2007 and report that female managers receive 19 … to seven percent. While the gender pay gap is slightly below 5 percent for the fixed component, it is almost 10 percent …
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accrued through social connections, influences gender pay gaps. Consistent with homophily, the tendency to bond and interact …
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Using data from the OSIRIS database, we investigate the gender wage gap in top corporate jobs for the years 2000 till …
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America's corporate boards are insufficiently diverse. Too few women and ethnic minorities are at the table. California's SB 826 seeks to remedy this situation by imposing penalties on publicly traded corporations with headquarters in California, regardless of where they are chartered, if their...
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Finance is a vital ingredient for economic growth, but there can also be too much of it. This study investigates what fifty years of data for OECD countries have to say about the role of the financial sector for economic growth and income inequality and draws policy implications. Over the past...
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publicly listed US firms, the authors analyze the gender pay gaps across the distribution of total compensation. In the …
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This paper investigates the CEO-to-employee pay gap. Empirical evidence is provided for a sample of about 900 publicly traded UK firms from 1984 to 1998. CEOs were paid about thirteen times the typical employee pay during the sample period. The CEO-to-employee pay ratio sharply increased from...
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We analyze the effects of team gender diversity on initial coin offering (ICO) success measured by the total funding … offerings between 2017 and 2019, we find that team gender diversity increases the total funding raised in the ICO. Moreover …
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We find that board gender diversity increases the likelihood that firms announce a buy-back but long-term excess … governance hypothesis: gender diversity makes it more likely that firms buy back stock to reduce agency costs of free cash flow …. But because gender diversity improves the quality of public information disclosure repurchases are less driven by market …
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We investigate the relation between firm performance and boardroom gender diversity using quantile regression methods …-performing firms. The board gender diversity effect is not homogeneous as assumed in previous research. In addition, we account for the … positive correlation between firm performance and board gender diversity. Overall, we suggest that boardroom gender diversity …
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