Is Gender Diversity Profitable? Evidence from a Global Survey
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Keywords
Women; gender; diversity; boards of directors; CEOs;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G3 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- M14 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Corporate Culture; Diversity; Social Responsibility
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HRM-2016-03-06 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LAB-2016-03-06 (Labour Economics)
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