Arbeitspapier
Why Are There So Few Female Top Executives in Egalitarian Welfare States?
We identify pertinent institutions governing the structure of payoffs with regard to female career progression. Drawing on recent insights in behavioral economics, we hypothesize that interactions between psychological mechanisms and the institutional setup may be important determinants of cross-country differences in the level and evolution of female representation in executive positions in the business sector. We test this proposition informally by exploring whether it can be used to account for some of the observed differences between the Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian countries in this respect. Three particularly important conclusions emerge: (i) broad welfare state policy promotes high female labor force participation, but blunts incentives to pursue top executive positions in the business sector; (ii) therefore, it is likely to be misleading to use the share of female executives as a proxy for gender equality in welfare states; and (iii) psychological mechanisms are likely to amplify the effects of policies and institutions.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 786
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Demand and Supply of Labor: General
Personnel Economics: Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
- Subject
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Career choice
Career incentives
Gender equality
Parental leave
Household production
Weibliche Führungskräfte
Erwerbsverlauf
Frauen
Gleichberechtigung
Haushaltsproduktion
Elternzeit
Verhaltensökonomik
Australien
Großbritannien
Kanada
USA
Nordeuropa
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Henrekson, Magnus
Stenkula, Mikael
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
- (where)
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Stockholm
- (when)
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2009
- Handle
- Last update
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20.09.2024, 8:21 AM CEST
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Henrekson, Magnus
- Stenkula, Mikael
- Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
Time of origin
- 2009