CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Sokolova, Marina |
|---|---|
| Title | Labor discrimination and female leadership - evidence from Hungary |
| Summary | This thesis analyzes the effect of female leadership on the wages and workplace discrimination in form of wage gaps in Hungary. I find that employees who work in companies where Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is a female tend to have higher wages compared to the firms with male CEOs. These results are robust to the number of specifications when the worker-level fixed effects are included and the firm-level characteristics like industry dummies or dummies for public and private ownership are controlled for. The analysis of the dynamics for the firms who switched from male to female CEO suggests that the positive effect on wages starts from the third year since the change occurred and confirms the findings of the baseline model. As an extension, I also test how female CEOs impact the overall number of females in the company and find a positive effect both for the dynamics specification and baseline results. |
| Supervisor | Almos Telegdy |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/sokolova_marina.pdf |
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