The next Labor & Finance Online seminar will take place next Thursday, December 3 at 2:00 pm Eastern Time.
Sandra Mortal will present "Gender and Executive Job Mobility: Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions", which is joint work with Xiaohu Guo, Vishal Gupta, and Vikram Nanda (see the abstract below).
To join the seminar, please register here (registrations are event-specific).
To make the presentation a dynamic one, we will have a seminar-style presentation with questions asked during the presentation. We will moderate the discussion and provide more details on the format at the beginning of the talk. We will have 60 minutes in total. More details on the format are here: https://sites.google.com/view/lfos/logistics
Looking forward to seeing you,
David, Elena, Jessica, and Tania
Paper abstract:
The increasing presence of women in executive positions has fostered interest in understanding how men and women fare in the managerial labor market. We examine gender differences in managerial job mobility by focusing on managers displaced (almost 90%) when their firms are acquired. Comparing labor market outcomes for similarly-ranked managers from the same target firm and within the same functional area, we find that career disruption results in a larger drop in rank for female managers, despite similar job search efforts. Gender differences are moderated for managers hired by firms with more women in upper echelon positions. Women with rich prior managerial experience and service on external boards also fare well. Our results point to a significant (implicit) 'gender penalty' for women in terms of managerial job mobility, but also indicate contexts in which the penalty may be alleviated, and even reversed.
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Vishal K Gupta
Associate Professor
The University of Alabama
www.drvkgupta.com------------------------------