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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

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

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The emergence of male leadership in competitive environments

Reuben, Ernesto; Rey-Biel, Pedro; Sapienza, Paola; … - 2010

in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as … underrepresentation of women, namely, gender differences in overconfidence concerning past performance, in the willingness to exaggerate …

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Do trustees and administrators matter? Diversifying the faculty across gender lines

Ehrenberg, Ronald G.; Jakubson, George H.; Martin, … - 2009

Our paper focuses on the role that the gender composition of the leaders of American colleges and universities- trustees, presidents/chancellors, and provosts/academic vice presidents - plays in influencing the rate at which academic institutions diversify their faculty across gender lines. We...

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Estimating the need for PhDs in the academic sector via a survey of employers

Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Kanep, Hanna - 2007

The aim of the current paper is to estimate the need for new PhDs in the Estonian academic sector for the 5-year period 2007-2012 using a survey of employers, such as universities, institutions of applied higher education and research institutes. The doctoral workforce in all countries around...

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Does distance determine who attends a university in Germany?

Spieß, Christa Katharina; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2008

We analyze the role of distance from a university in the decision to attend higher education in Germany. Students who live near a university can avoid moving and the increased living expenses by commuting. Thus, transaction cost arguments would suggest that the greater the distance to the...

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Higher education and equality of opportunity in Italy

Peragine, Vito; Serlenga, Laura - 2007

This paper proposes a definition of equality of educational opportunities. Then, it develops a comprehensive model that allows to test for the existence of equality of opportunity in a given distribution and to rank distributions according to equality of opportunity. Finally, it provides an...

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On the determinants of pay of CEOs in UK public sector higher education institutions

Bachan, Ray - 2008

The pay determining process of CEOs of UK higher education institutions is modelled using three econometric methodologies applied to a large and unique dataset for the academic years 1997/98 through to 2005/06. A gender differential in pay is detected and this differential remains robust across...

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Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education

Hemelt, Steven W.; Marcotte, Dave E. - 2008

In this paper we review recent trends in tuition at public universities and estimate impacts on enrollment. We use data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System on all public four-year colleges and universities from 1991 to 2007 and illustrate that tuition increased dramatically...

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'The' market for higher education: Does it really exist?

Becker, William E.; Round, David K. - 2009

Higher education, like any other commodity or service, has been viewed in a variety of economic frameworks. Little of this work, however, appears to have made any effort to define carefully the boundaries of the relevant market for higher education, which is the subject of this particular...

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A long-run view of the university gender gap in Australia

Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - 2010

discrimination began to be eroded. These factors, together with a series of supply-side changes, meant that women were more easily … able to shift into investing in the skills in which labour demand was increasing. By 1987, Australian women were more …

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