An Interdisciplinary Approach to Analyzing the Managerial Gender Gap

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ID9887965
AutoresKathleen Cannings (Department of Industrial Relations, Université de Montréal, and Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138., autor correspondente)
Ano1991
Volume44
Fascículo7
Páginas679-695
Data de publicação1991-07-01
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHuman Relations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/001872679104400703
OpenAlexW2152630667
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas17

In analyzing the sources of female-male earnings differences, this paper goes beyond the narrow focus of human-capital theory with its view that the only relevant productive attributes of individuals is their cognitive capabilities. Using a unique firm-level Canadian data set on managerial employees and a "social model" of earnings that includes behavioral and organizational as well as cognitive variables, the paper estimates the determinants of earnings differences in general and the gender gap in particular. The statistical analysis reveals that, for all employees in the sample, experience with the company has a significant positive impact on earnings while a reluctance to leave the company has a negative impact. As for the gender gap, the analysis reveals that the earnings of women are penalized by their disproportionate responsibilities for work in their family homes

Business · Cognition · Demographic economics · Earnings · Economic growth · Economics · Gender gap · Human capital · Human capital theory · Sample (material · Set (abstract data type · Social capital · Sociology · Work (physics · Accounting · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges

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