Mentoring and segregation: female-led firms and gender wage policies

Arbeitspapier

We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using a large longitudinal data set for Portugal. Female managers can protect and mentor female employees by paying them higher wages than male-led firms would do. We find that females can enjoy higher wages in female-led firms, the opposite being true for males. In both cases is a higher share of females reducing the wage level. These results are compatible with a theory where job promotion is an important factor of wage increases: if more females are to be mentored, less promotion slots are available for males, but also the expected chance of a female to be promoted is lower.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 3210

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Personnel Economics: Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
• Subject: Female entrepreneurs ; wages ; gender gap ; matched employer-employee data ; Arbeitsmarktdiskriminierung ; Weibliche Führungskräfte ; Personalwirtschaft ; Frauenarbeitslohn ; Lohnniveau ; Portugal

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Cardoso, Ana Rute ; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2007

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/34317
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET