Why Are So Few Females Promoted into CEO and Vice-President Positions? Danish Empirical Evidence 1997-2007
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Keywords
promotion; top executive positions; statistical discrimination;JEL classification:
- G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- M51 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Firm Employment Decisions; Promotions
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2011-09-22 (Business Economics)
- NEP-HME-2011-09-22 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-LAB-2011-09-22 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2011-09-22 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, & Wages)
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