Intra-firm hierarchies and gender gaps

• Main Authors: DALVIT, Nicolo, PATEL, Aseem, TAN, Joanne
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Gender Gap; Firm Organisation; Gender Quota; Trickle-Down Effect; Behavioral Economics; Industrial Organization; Organization Development
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2594; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3593/viewcontent/tan_j22733.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We study how changes in female representation at the top of a firm’s organisation affect gender-specific outcomes across hierarchies within firms. We start by developing a theoretical model of a hierarchical firm, where gender representation in top organisational layers can affect gender-specific hi...