From business to politics and academia, the economic effects of the introduction of gender quotas are under scrutiny …. We provide new evidence based on the introduction of mandatory gender quotas for boards of directors of Italian companies … run event studies on the stock price reaction to both the announcement and the introduction of gender quotas. A positive …

the stock price reaction to the introduction of gender quotas. A positive effect of the quota law on stock market returns …In 2011, Italy introduced gender quotas for boards of directors of companies listed on its stock market. Comparing … emerges at the date of the board's election. Our results are consistent with gender quotas giving rise to a beneficial …

This paper estimates the gender wage gap and its composition in China's urban labor market using the 2009 survey data … examine the gender wage gap using ordinary least square regression method with a gender dummy variable. Then, we apply Oaxaca … referred to as discrimination turns out to be higher when the adjustment is made for the selection bias. A further breakdown of …

female labor forces. We also find that the positive influence of women in top leadership positions on managerial gender …

labor market, such as gender stereotypes and gender identity. This paper examines gender stereotypes and self … weaker beliefs in their masculine skills, whereas the opposite is observed for male managers. Gender stereotypes and self-stereotypes … survey data used contain detailed information about the managers as well as their employers. We find significant gender …

This paper examines the gender composition of the flow of new hirees along the organizational hierarchy of jobs. We …

characteristics. This aspiration gap can explain a large part of the gender promotion gap that is observed later. We propose a model … managing, career aspirations as an early intervention to close gender career gaps …

We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law … sample includes countries at different stages of development. We document the cross-country variation in gender gaps and how … these gaps have changed over time. We show that while there is gender parity at the entry level in most countries by the end …

investigate gender differences in the willingness to enter competition. Using data on about 42,000 professors and controlling for … competition of about 4 percentage points. The determinants of this gap seem to be gender differences in risk-aversion and self …-confidence and women's fear of discrimination: the lower tendency to enter competition is especially relevant for women in the lower …