More Female Manager Hires through More Female Managers? Evidence from Germany

Mario Bossler, Alexander Mosthaf () and Thorsten Schank
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Alexander Mosthaf: University of Mainz

No 10240, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper investigates if there is state dependence in the gender composition of managers in German establishments. We analyze whether the number of hired female managers (respectively the share of females within hired managers) depends on the past hiring decisions of an establishment. Using administrative data, we apply dynamic linear models and dynamic tobit models accounting for unobserved heterogeneity and the endogeneity of lagged dependent variables. We find that an increase of female manager hires in present leads to more female hired managers in the future. Similarly, the number of male manager hires also exhibits state dependence.

Keywords: dynamic panel data models; state dependence; gender discrimination; female managers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 J16 J71 M12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2016-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem and nep-eur
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Published - published as 'Are Female Managers More Likely to Hire More Female Managers? Evidence from Germany' in: ILR Review, 2020, 73 (3), 676-704

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