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Gender diversity in corporate boards : evidence from quota-implied discontinuities

Kuzʹmina, Olʹga; Melentʹeva, Valentina - 2021 - This version: January 2021

Using data across European corporate boards, we investigate the effects of quota-induced female representation on firm value and operations, under minimal identification assumptions. We consider sharp increases in the share of women on boards that arise due to rounding whenever percentage-based...

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Welcome on board? : appointment dynamics of women as directors

Schoonjans, Eline; Hottenrott, Hanna; Buchwald, Achim - 2023

Increasing the participation of women in top-level corporate boards is high on the agenda of policymakers. Yet, we know little about director appointment dynamics and the drivers and impediments of women appointments. This study builds on organizational and group-level behavior theories and...

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Women directors and cost efficiency

Litina, Anastasia; Uberti, Luca J.; Zanaj, Skerdilajda - 2023

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The influence of social capital on CEO dismissal in Germany : an empirical analysis

Wrage, Markus; Tuschke, Anja; Bresser, Rudi K. F. - 2011

In this study, we address the question of why some CEOs stay in office during a performance downturn while others don't. Based on a social capital perspective we assume that (1) the social capital endowment of an underperforming CEO may reduce the risk of getting dismissed and that (2) the...

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Strategic use of unfriendly leadership and labor market competition : an experimental analysis

Danilov, Anastasia; Hong, Ju Yeong; Schöttner, Anja - 2024

hostile behavior exhibited by managers. The motivations driving managers to adopt such behaviors are insufficiently understood …. To explore this phenomenon, we conducted a laboratory experiment examining the relationship between managers' use of … unfriendly leadership and labor market competition. We discern two labor market states: excess labor demand, where managers …

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Executive board composition and bank risk taking

Berger, Allen N.; Kick, Thomas; Schaeck, Klaus - 2012

Little is known about how socioeconomic characteristics of executive teams affect corporate governance in banking. Exploiting a unique dataset, we show how age, gender, and education composition of executive teams affect risk taking of financial institutions. First, we establish that age,...

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Wage discrimination and occupational segregation of foreign male workers in Germany

Velling, Johannes - 1995

We analyze wage discrimination against foreign male workers in Germany with respect to different nationality groups and focused on its interaction with occupational segregation. We found evidence of strong occupational segregation, which we mainly attribute to institutional factors but also to...

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Wage discrimination and occupational segregation of foreign male workers in Germany

Velling, Johannes - 1995

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Gender wage differences in West Germany : a cohort analysis

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wunderlich, Gaby - 2000

A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany. Using an empirical approach which takes into account explicitely changes of wage distributions for both males and females as well as life-cycle and birth cohort effects, we go...

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From friends to foes : national identity and collaboration in diverse teams

Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2019

This project studies collaboration in highly skilled, nationally diverse teams. An unexpected international political conflict makes national diversity more salient among existing and potential team members. I exploit this natural experiment to quantify the role of social, identity-driven, costs...

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