Mentoring and Segregation: Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies

Ana Rute Cardoso and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

No 3210, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using a large longitudinal data set for Portugal. Female managers can protect and mentor female employees by paying them higher wages than male-led firms would do. We find that females can enjoy higher wages in female-led firms, the opposite being true for males. In both cases is a higher share of females reducing the wage level. These results are compatible with a theory where job promotion is an important factor of wage increases: if more females are to be mentored, less promotion slots are available for males, but also the expected chance of a female to be promoted is lower.

Keywords: gender gap; wages; matched employer-employee data; female entrepreneurs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D21 J16 J31 M52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2007-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-ent and nep-lab
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Published - published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 64 (1), 143-163

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