Manager impartiality? Worker-firm matching and the gender wage gap

Arbeitspapier

This paper examines whether women benefit from working under female management using Swedish matched employer-employee panel data. I account for unobserved heterogeneity among both workers and firms potentially correlated with manager gender. The results show a substantial negative and statistically significant correlation between the proportion of female managers and the establishment's gender wage gap. However, estimates that account for sorting on unobserved worker skills do not support that that managers favor same-sex workers in wage setting. Additional results show female-led organizations recruit more non-managerial, high-wage women but this is primarily due to (unobserved) firm attributes rather than gender-specific management practices.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2011:22

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Labor-Management Relations; Industrial Jurisprudence
• Subject: Gender wage gap ; managers ; worker sorting ; Weibliche Arbeitskräfte ; Lohndifferenzierung ; Arbeitsbeziehungen ; Weibliche Führungskräfte ; Schweden

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Hensvik, Lena
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU)
• (where): Uppsala
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/82285
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET