Gender Differences in Human Resource Management
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2016
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Haverford College. Department of Economics
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As women’s presence in the workforce grows, there is more interest in assessing the differences in business decision making between men and women. This study uses unbalanced panel data collected from the Kauffman Firm Survey to examine how gender of business owners affects their human resource management decisions. This study does so in two ways: (1) by examining the effect of gender on providing employee benefits, and (2) by analyzing the effect of gender on tendency to downsize their workforce in bad economic conditions. This paper finds that women owners provide fewer benefits than men. In addition, this paper finds no difference in the downsizing decisions of men and women during economic downturns.