Arbeitspapier
Do Female Executives Make a Difference? The Impact of Female Leadership on Gender Gaps and Firm Performance
We analyze a matched employer-employee panel data set and find that female leadership has a positive effect on female wages at the top of the distribution, and a negative one at the bottom. Moreover, performance in firms with female leadership increases with the share of female workers. This evidence is consistent with a model where female executives are better equipped at interpreting signals of productivity from female workers. This suggests substantial costs of under-representation of women at the top: for example, if women became CEOs of firms with at least 20% female employment, sales per worker would increase 6.7%.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 8602
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- Thema
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executives' gender
gender gap
firm performance
glass ceiling
statistical discrimination
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Flabbi, Luca
Macis, Mario
Moro, Andrea
Schivardi, Fabiano
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2014
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Flabbi, Luca
- Macis, Mario
- Moro, Andrea
- Schivardi, Fabiano
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2014
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