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  • Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings

Do External Labor Market Job Switches Affect the Gender Compensation Gap?

By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Eric Lin
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Abstract

This paper investigates how external mobility influences the gender compensation gap for job switching executives. Using proprietary data for 2,034 executive placements from a global search firm, we find job switching narrows the gender gap by 45%, from 11% to 6%. We hypothesize and find evidence that the decline is more marked in positions where qualified women candidates are relatively scarce, such as high-rank positions, and those in industries and functions with fewer women. We interpret this as evidence of firms’ willingness to pay a premium for qualified women candidates in these situations.

Keywords

Executive Compensation; Gender

Citation

Groysberg, Boris, Paul M. Healy, and Eric Lin. "Do External Labor Market Job Switches Affect the Gender Compensation Gap?" Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (2016).
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Boris Groysberg

Organizational Behavior
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Paul M. Healy

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