Firm leadership and the gender pay gap: do active owners discriminate more than hired managers?

Boris Hirsch () and Steffen Mueller
Additional contact information
Boris Hirsch: Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg

Journal for Labour Market Research, 2014, vol. 47, issue 1, 129-142

Abstract: Abstract Using a large linked employer–employee data set for Germany, we investigate differences in the unexplained gender pay gap between owner-run and manager-run firms. We hypothesise that owner-managers and hired managers differ in their discretion to engage in profit-reducing taste discrimination against women, which would translate into different pay gaps depending on leadership regime. We find that unexplained gaps are significantly higher in owner-run firms, both statistically and economically. Yet, scrutinising these results by restricting our analysis to firms that only differ in leadership regime, this substantial difference disappears. Therefore, our findings do not support that active owners are more discriminatory per se.

Keywords: Gender pay gap; Firm leadership; Discrimination; Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J31 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s12651-013-0138-x Abstract (text/html)

Related works:
Journal Article: Firm leadership and the gender pay gap: do active owners discriminate more than hired managers? (2014)
Working Paper: Firm leadership and the gender pay gap: Do active owners discriminate more than hired managers? (2010)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:jlabrs:v:47:y:2014:i:1:d:10.1007_s12651-013-0138-x

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/12651

DOI: 10.1007/s12651-013-0138-x

Access Statistics for this article

Journal for Labour Market Research is currently edited by Joachim Möller

More articles in Journal for Labour Market Research from Springer, Institute for Employment Research/ Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB)
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().