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

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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.

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Pages

988-1004

Publication/Series

Business History

Volume

57

Issue

7

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • Economic History

Keywords

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

Status

Published

Project

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

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0007-6791