Cracks in the Glass Ceiling and Gender Equality: Do Exports Shatter the Glass Ceiling? / Bruno César Araújo, Lourenço S. Paz, James E. West.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Araújo, Bruno César.

Contributor:

Paz, Lourenço S.

West, James E.

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w33260.

NBER working paper series no. w33260

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2024.

Summary:

Do female managers improve workplace outcomes for female employees? The evidence is mixed. We use Brazilian administrative employer-employee matched data over the large and unanticipated 1999 Brazilian real exchange rate devaluation and find that the share of female employees grows in female-led firms, but the male-female wage gap grows in both female- and male-led firms. This behavior is inconsistent with both theoretical models of taste-based employer discrimination and third-degree oligopsonistic labor markets by gender. Outcomes only differ between female- and male-led firms regarding managerial and supervisory employees, where female-led firms hire more female managerial and supervisory employees, yet the gender wage gap widens relative to male-led firms. We conclude that exports further crack the glass ceiling in female-led firms, though at the cost of a more expansive gender wage gap.

Notes:

December 2024.

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