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Title: Mentoring and Segregation: Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies

Author(s): Ana Rute Cardoso and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

Publication Date: December 2007

Keyword(s): female entrepreneurs, gender gap, matched employer-employee data and wages

Programme Area(s): Labour Economics

Abstract: We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using a large longitudinal data set for Portugal. Female managers can protect and mentor female employees by paying them higher wages than male-led firms would do. We find that females can enjoy higher wages in female-led firms, the opposite being true for males. In both cases is a higher share of females reducing the wage level. These results are compatible with a theory where job promotion is an important factor of wage increases: if more females are to be mentored, less promotion slots are available for males, but also the expected chance of a female to be promoted is lower.

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Cardoso, A and Winter-Ebmer, R. 2007. 'Mentoring and Segregation: Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=6618