This study examines gender differences in overconfidence and decision-making in a high-stakes environment. Using data … and can be partly explained by experience. There are no substantial gender differences on the intensive margin of …

Can gender-balanced social norms mitigate the gender differences in competitiveness that are observed in traditional … results highlight the importance of culture and socialization for gender differences in competitiveness and suggest that the … large gender-differences in competitiveness documented for modern societies are a long-term consequence of a patriarchic …

opposite gender human capital and the analysis of its effect on the earning profiles of unique human capital holders. The … overwhelming research aim is to better understand the possible reasons behind gender wage disparities, focusing on the unique … features of male and female human capital and their returns. When assessing the gender pay disparities, variation of human …

migration decisions. I show that as the earned income of spouses become similar, the probability of migration falls … strongly correlated with relative income, 2) it yields qualitatively similar results when I model the incidence of attrition as … income similarity of couples and interstate migration is especially strong for couples with similar labor market …

It has been shown that a person's relative income - compared to a reference group - has a negative impact on self … relative income is low. In this paper we study this hypothesis by estimating the effect of relative income on job mobility … characteristics. Our findings suggest that workers compare their own income to that of their neighbors, and low relative income is …

for formal-informal wage gap within gender groups, the semi-parametric estimates suggest that the observed formal …

period (2005 - 2012). Analyzing the impact of the current recession and quantifying the gender wage inequality between women … wage structure, this study examines the evolution of its main variables in the period 2005-2012 from a gender perspective …) in order to detect and quantify the differences due to gender difference and to analyze the distribution of intergroup …