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Do women top managers help women advance? A panel study using EEO-1 records

Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - 2012

The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment...

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The dynamics of women's labour supply in developing countries

Bhalotra, Sonia; Umaña-Aponte, Marcela - 2010

that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … and potentially correlated shocks. In Asia and Latin America, characteristics that strengthen counter-cyclical responses … self-employment amongst women. In Asia and Latin America, there is a parallel rise in paid employment and a sharp drop in …

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Changing fertility preferences one migrant at a time: the impact of remittances on the fertility rate

Naufal, George S.; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2009

In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later transmit to the household the ideas, values and...

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Do Women Top Managers Help Women Advance? A Panel Study Using EEO-1 Records

Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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What a Difference a Y Makes : Female and Male Nascent Entrepreneurs in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2004

In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in entrepreneurship as women. Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the decision to become selfemployed to test for differences...

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Sex Differences in Managerial Style : From Individual Leadership to Organisational Labour Relationships

Melero, Eduardo - 2004

This paper deals with sex differences in managerial behaviour, by testing the extent to which such differences match those expected from gender stereotypes. Unlike previous research on the topic, always based on opinions about individual managers, this investigation uses firm-level evidence from...

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Is There a Glass Ceiling in Sweden?

Albrecht, James; Björklund, Anders; Vroman, Susan - 2001

Using data from 1998, we show that the gender log wage gap in Sweden increases throughout the wage distribution and accelerates in the upper tail of the distribution, which we interpret as a glass ceiling effect. Using earlier data, we show that the same pattern held at the beginning of the...

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Do women in top management affect firm performance? A panel study of 2500 Danish firms

Smith, Nina; Smith, Valdemar; Verner, Mette - 2005

Corporate governance literature argues that board diversity is potentially positively related to firm performance. This study examines the relationship in the case of women in top executive jobs and on boards of directors. We use data for the 2500 largest Danish firms observed during the period...

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Mentoring and segregation: female-led firms and gender wage policies

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2007

We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using a large longitudinal data set for Portugal. Female managers can protect and mentor female employees by paying them higher wages than male-led firms would do. We find that females can enjoy higher wages in...

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Gender differences in business performance: evidence from the characteristics of business owners survey

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - 2008

Using confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we investigate the performance of female-owned businesses making comparisons to male-owned businesses. Using regression estimates and a decomposition technique, we explore the role that human capital, especially through prior work...

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