Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/229475 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 8657
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We propose a management career model where females face a gender-specific career hurdle. We show that female managers will, on average, be more skilled than male managers, since females from the low end of the talent distribution will abstain from investing in a career as a manager. The average female manager will then be better at mitigating more intense product market competition. When the intensity of product market competition increases, hirings and wages for female managers will therefore increase relative to those of male managers. Using Swedish matched employer-employee data, we find strong empirical evidence for all these predictions.
Subjects: 
career
gender wage-gap
job inflexibility
management
competition
JEL: 
J70
L20
M50
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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