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Do Female Executives Make a Difference? The Impact of Female Leadership on Gender Gaps and Firm Performance
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Luca Flabbi, Mario Macis, Andrea Moro, Fabiano Schivardi
(October 2014)
published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (622), 2390-2423
Abstract:
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%.
Text: See Discussion Paper No. 8602 
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