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Differences in full-time work experience explain almost a quarter of the gender pay gap in management positions
Holst, Elke; Marquardt, Anne - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 34/35, pp. 315-324
Women still earn less than men on average in Germany. This applies to management positions even more: between 2010 and …
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Types of absence from work and wages of young workers with apprenticeship training
Kunze, Astrid - In: Journal for labour market research 51 (2017) 5, pp. 1-14
male and female workers in West Germany. The analysis distinguishes different types of career absence: unemployment …
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Feminist firms
Bennett, Benjamin; Erel, Isil; Stern, Léa; Wang, Zexi - 2019
We explore how lowering labor market frictions for female workers affects corporate performance. Using the staggered adoption of state-level Paid Family Leave acts, we provide causal evidence on the value created by relieving frictions to accessing female talent, for private and public firms....
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Overconfidence and gender equality in the labor market
Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2023
Using a promotion signaling model in which wages are realistically shaped by market forces, we analyze how male overconfidence combined with competitive workplace incentives affects gender equality in the labor market. Our main result is that overconfident workers exert more effort to be...
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Overconfidence and gender equality in the labor market
Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2023
Gender differences in overconfidence have been extensively documented in the empirical literature, but the implications for labor market outcomes are not well understood. In this paper, we analyze how men's relatively higher overconfidence, combined with competitive job incentives, affects...
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Support on the way to the top? : the effect of organisational equal opportunities measures on women's promotion prospects
Wanger, Susanne - 2022
Even though women have been able to increase their participation in management positions to a small extent in recent … years, they are still significantly underrepresented in management positions. Organisational measures to promote gender … organisational measures may increase women's career opportunities or promote the assumption of management positions on a part …
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Do Women Top Managers Help Women Advance? A Panel Study Using EEO-1 Records
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana - 2012
The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce … management on subsequent female representation in lower-level managerial positions in U.S. firms. Our key findings show that an …-level management positions within firms, and this result is robust to controlling for firm size, workforce composition, federal …
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Do women top managers help women advance? : a panel study using EEO-1 records
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - 2011
The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of management ranks of firms help reduce … in top management on subsequent female representation in lowerlevel managerial positions in U.S. firms. Our key findings … mid-level management positions within firms, and this result is robust to controlling for firm size, workforce composition …
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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 … management on subsequent female representation in lower-level managerial positions in U.S. firms. Our key findings show that an …-level management positions within firms, and this result is robust to controlling for firm size, workforce composition, federal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534961
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Women and Leadership
Miller, Amalia R. - 2017
Despite decades of progress relative to men in work and schooling, women remain severely under-represented among top corporate and political leaders. This chapter discusses the current status and recent progress of women in leadership positions, with a focus on the realm of corporate leadership....
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