全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Breaking the Glass Ceiling? The Effect of Board Quotas on Female Labor Market Outcomes in Norway

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w20256
来源ID	Working Paper 20256
	Breaking the Glass Ceiling? The Effect of Board Quotas on Female Labor Market Outcomes in Norway
	Marianne Bertrand; Sandra E. Black; Sissel Jensen; Adriana Lleras-Muney
发表日期	2014-06-26
出版年	2014
语种	英语
摘要	In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40 percent representation of each gender on the board of public limited liability companies. The primary objective of this reform was to increase the representation of women in top positions in the corporate sector and decrease the gender disparity in earnings within that sector. We document that the women appointed to these boards post-reform were observably more qualified than their female predecessors along many dimensions, and that the gender gap in earnings within boards fell substantially. On the other hand, we see no robust evidence that the reform benefited the larger set of women employed in the companies subject to the quota. Moreover, the reform had no clear impact on highly qualified women whose qualifications mirror those of board members but who were not appointed to boards. Finally, we find mixed support for the view that the reform affected the decisions of young women: while the reform was not accompanied by any change in female enrollment in business education programs, we do see some improvements in labor market outcomes for young women with graduate business degrees in their early career stages; however, we observe similar improvements for young women with graduate science degrees, suggesting this may not be due to the reform. Overall, seven years after the board quota policy fully came into effect, we conclude that it had very little discernible impact on women in business beyond its direct effect on the women who made it into boardrooms.
主题	Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Labor Compensation ; Labor Discrimination
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w20256
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577929
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Marianne Bertrand,Sandra E. Black,Sissel Jensen,et al. Breaking the Glass Ceiling? The Effect of Board Quotas on Female Labor Market Outcomes in Norway. 2014.