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Maria Stanfors. Foto.

Maria Stanfors

Professor

Maria Stanfors. Foto.

A winning strategy? The employment of women and firm longevity during industrialisation

Författare

  • Maria Stanfors
  • Björn Eriksson

Summary, in English

Why do certain firms prosper and grow old while other firms fail? Established knowledge tells us that longevity is related to the firm's ability to adapt to market conditions, through product diversification, learning-by-doing and adopting new strategies regarding technology, human resources and management. By estimating duration models using new data covering the entire Swedish tobacco industry, we find that firms employing more women were considerably less likely to fail than other firms. Industry feminisation may be seen as the outcome of a competitive process where more feminised firms as a result of their extended longevity came to dominate the industry.

Avdelning/ar

  • Centrum för ekonomisk demografi
  • Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

Publiceringsår

2015

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

988-1004

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Business History

Volym

57

Issue

7

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Taylor & Francis

Ämne

  • Economic History

Nyckelord

  • firm survival
  • longevity
  • competing risks
  • competition
  • female employment

Aktiv

Published

Projekt

  • The Emergence of Wage Discrimination
  • The Emergence of Wage Discrimination: Gender wage differentials before the modern labor market (IFAU)

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0007-6791