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

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Ana Rute Cardoso

No 6618, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

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: Female entrepreneurs; Wages; Gender gap; Matched employer-employee data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D21 J16 J31 M52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-12
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (18)

Downloads: (external link)
https://cepr.org/publications/DP6618 (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Mentoring and Segregation: Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies (2007)
Working Paper: Mentoring and Segregation: Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies (2007)
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:cpr:ceprdp:6618

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
https://cepr.org/publications/DP6618

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research 33 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DX, UK.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CEPR ().