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The importance of co-determination for gender diversity in the boardroom

Kunze, Astrid; Scharfenkamp, Katrin - 2025

This study examines the interplay of co-determination law and board gender quotas using novel board-director panel data for Norway. We present descriptive evidence suggesting that boards with employee representatives on boards of directors were more gender diverse before the gender quota....

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Gender diversity, labour in the boardroom and gender quotas

Kunze, Astrid; Scharfenkamp, Katrin - 2022

This study investigates boards of (non-executive) directors and whether employee representation has a positive effect on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany, which contain unique information on whether a director...

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Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards?

Blandhol, Christine; Mogstad, Magne; Nilsson, J. Peter; … - 2020

Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards? Economists and policymakers are keenly interested in this question – especially lately, as worker representation is widely promoted as an important way to ensure the interests and views of the workers. To investigate this...

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Are male bosses bad for women's careers? : evidence from a multinational corporation

Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Holub, Felix - 2025

in low-stakes decisions that do not affect managers’ own career prospects. …

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Immediate manager gender and female wages : the importance of manager position

Halldén, Karin; Säve-Söderbergh, Jenny; Rosén, Åsa - 2016

One argument for increasing female representation in management is the anticipation that female managers are … position, and controlling for important sorting of employees, the negative association is found only among lower-level managers … and not among high-level managers. We discuss decision-making power as one possible explanation for this heterogeneity. …

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Selection into leadership and dishonest behavior of leaders : a gender experiment

Grosch, Kerstin; Müller, Stephan; Rau, Holger A.; … - 2020

Leaders often have to weigh ethical against monetary consequences. Such situations may evoke psychological costs from being dishonest and dismissing higher monetary benefits for others. In a within-subjects experiment, we analyze such a dilemma. We first measure individual dishonest behavior...

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Peer effects and the gender gap in corporate leadership : evidence from MBA students

Hampole, Menaka; Truffa, Francesca; Wong, Ashley - 2024

Women continue to be underrepresented in corporate leadership positions. This paper studies the role of social connections in women's career advancement. We investigate whether access to a larger share of female peers in business school affects the gender gap in senior managerial positions....

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What do central bankers do? : evidence from the European Central Bank's Executive Board

Badinger, Harald; Nitsch, Volker - 2019

This paper examines how managers at the top of a public institution, central bank executives, allocate their working …

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Do firms hire politicians as directors? : evidence from close elections

Lüchinger, Simon; Schelker, Mark; Schmid, Lukas - 2025

We document an overrepresentation of politicians on corporate boards using data for Swiss federal legislators in 1931-2015. However, a close-election regression discontinuity design shows that electoral success explains at most a small part of this overrepresentation. We find small and mostly...

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Does artificial intelligence help or hurt gender diversity? : evidence from two field experiments on recruitment in tech

Avery, Mallory; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Vecci, Joseph - 2024

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in recruitment is rapidly increasing and drastically changing how people apply to jobs and how applications are reviewed. In this paper, we use two field experiments to study how AI recruitment tools can impact gender diversity in the male-dominated...

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