Arbeitspapier
Women at the Top in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Data
This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a female dominant shareholder has a significantly higher probability of being a woman than in other firms. The effect is even more pronounced when the female shareholder holds a higher share of the capital and when the firm is foreign-owned. Our results suggest that "old boys' club" ownership structures are a major impediment to the empowerment of female talent in developing countries.
- Sprache
-
Englisch
- Erschienen in
-
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9537
- Klassifikation
-
Wirtschaft
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Labor Discrimination
Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
Personnel Economics: Firm Employment Decisions; Promotions
Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
- Thema
-
gender
diversity
ownership
leadership
CEO
development
- Ereignis
-
Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
-
Sekkat, Khalid
Szafarz, Ariane
Tojerow, Ilan
- Ereignis
-
Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
-
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
-
Bonn
- (wann)
-
2015
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
-
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
Datenpartner
Dieses Objekt wird bereitgestellt von:
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft. Bei Fragen zum Objekt wenden Sie sich bitte an den Datenpartner.
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft. Bei Fragen zum Objekt wenden Sie sich bitte an den Datenpartner.
Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Sekkat, Khalid
- Szafarz, Ariane
- Tojerow, Ilan
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2015
Ähnliche Objekte (12)
Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries
Relative treatment of aliens: Firm-level evidence from developing countries
Innovation, firm productivity, and export survival: Firm-level evidence from ASEAN developing countries
Innovation, firm productivity, and export survival: firm-level evidence from ASEAN developing countries
Openness and technological innovations in developing countries: evidence from firm-level surveys
Credit scarcity in developing countries: An empirical investigation using Brazilian firm-level data
Minimum Wages and Firm-Level Employment in a Developing Country
Minimum Wages and Firm-Level Employment in a Developing Country
Information Sharing and Credit: Firm-Level Evidence from Transition Countries
Exporting under financing constraints: Firm-level evidence from EU countries
Information sharing and credit: Firm-level evidence from transition countries
Firm-Level Productivity Spillovers from FDI in Latin American Countries
Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries
Relative treatment of aliens: Firm-level evidence from developing countries
Innovation, firm productivity, and export survival: Firm-level evidence from ASEAN developing countries
Innovation, firm productivity, and export survival: firm-level evidence from ASEAN developing countries
Openness and technological innovations in developing countries: evidence from firm-level surveys
Credit scarcity in developing countries: An empirical investigation using Brazilian firm-level data
Minimum Wages and Firm-Level Employment in a Developing Country
Minimum Wages and Firm-Level Employment in a Developing Country
Information Sharing and Credit: Firm-Level Evidence from Transition Countries
Exporting under financing constraints: Firm-level evidence from EU countries
Information sharing and credit: Firm-level evidence from transition countries
Firm-Level Productivity Spillovers from FDI in Latin American Countries
Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries
Relative treatment of aliens: Firm-level evidence from developing countries
Innovation, firm productivity, and export survival: Firm-level evidence from ASEAN developing countries
Innovation, firm productivity, and export survival: firm-level evidence from ASEAN developing countries
Openness and technological innovations in developing countries: evidence from firm-level surveys
Credit scarcity in developing countries: An empirical investigation using Brazilian firm-level data
Minimum Wages and Firm-Level Employment in a Developing Country
Minimum Wages and Firm-Level Employment in a Developing Country
Information Sharing and Credit: Firm-Level Evidence from Transition Countries
Exporting under financing constraints: Firm-level evidence from EU countries
Information sharing and credit: Firm-level evidence from transition countries