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What Works in Supporting Women-Led Businesses?

Ubfal, Diego - 2024

influence their decisions and can impact their business performance: gaps in human capital, access to finance, access to …

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New workplace practices and the gender wage gap: can the new economy be the great equalizer?

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Eriksson, Tor - 2006

We estimate the effect of introducing new workplace practices on the gender gap in wages in the manufacturing sector. We use a unique 1999 survey on work and compensation practices of Danish private sector firms merged to a large matched employer-employee database. Self-managed teams, project...

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Gender interactions within hierarchies: evidence from the political arena

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, Marco Daniele - 2009

This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of Italian municipal governments elected between 1993 and 2003. A municipal government can be viewed as a hierarchy, whose stability over time depends on the degree of cooperation...

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Birds of a Feather Earn Together. Gender and Peer Effects at the Workplace

Messina, Julián; Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna; Terskaya, … - 2024

Utilizing comprehensive administrative data from Brazil, we investigate the impact of peer effects on wages, considering both within-gender and cross-gender dynamics. Since the average productivity of both individuals and their peers is unobservable, we estimate these values using worker fixed...

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Gender Interactions within Hierarchies: Evidence from the Political Arena

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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Teamwork, Leadership and Gender

De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2018

We ran a field experiment to investigate whether individual performance in teams depends on the gender of the leader … work of the team. We find a positive and significant effect of female leadership on team performance. This effect is driven … by the higher performance of team members in female led teams rather than due to an improvement in the leader …

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New Workplace Practices and the Gender Wage Gap: Can the New Economy be the Great Equalizer?

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Eriksson, Tor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

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Using Domain-Specific Word Embeddings to Examine the Demand for Skills

Chaturvedi, Sugat; Mahajan, Kanika; Siddique, Zahra - 2023

We study the demand for skills by using text analysis methods on job descriptions in a large volume of ads posted on an online Indian job portal. We make use of domain-specific unlabeled data to obtain word vector representations (i.e., word embeddings) and discuss how these can be leveraged for...

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Choking under Pressure and Gender: Evidence from Professional Tennis

Cohen-Zada, Danny; Krumer, Alex; Rosenboim, Mosi; … - 2017

in order to assess how men and women respond to competitive pressure. Comparing their performance in low-stakes versus … results are mixed. Furthermore, even if women show a drop in performance in the more crucial stages of the match, it is in any …

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Women Do Not Play Their Aces: The Consequences of Shying Away

Claussen, Jörg; Czibor, Eszter; van Praag, Mirjam C. - 2015

The underrepresentation of women at the top of hierarchies is often explained by gender differences in preferences. We find support for this claim by analyzing a large dataset from an online card game community, a stylized yet natural setting characterized by self-selection into an uncertain,...

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