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Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017

: competition, business environment, learning spillovers and human capital. Collectively, these drivers account for about a third of …

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Male and female competitive behavior: experimental evidence

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, … - 2005

such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a …

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Risk-taking tournaments: theory and experimental evidence

Nieken, Petra; Sliwka, Dirk - 2008

We study risk-taking behavior in a simple two person tournament in a theoretical model as well as a laboratory experiment. First, a model is analyzed in which two agents simultaneously decide between a risky and a safe strategy and we allow for all possible degrees of correlation between the...

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Where the girls are: trade and labor market segregation in Colombia

Ederington, Josh; Minier, Jenny; Troske, Kenneth R. - 2009

Gary Becker's theory of discrimination argues that increasing competition will reduce discrimination in the labor … increase in foreign competition due to unilateral trade liberalization disproportionately drove discriminating plants out of …

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Privatization and changes in the wage structure: evidence from firm personnel records

Melly, Blaise; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2008

We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization...

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'The' market for higher education: Does it really exist?

Becker, William E.; Round, David K. - 2009

Higher education, like any other commodity or service, has been viewed in a variety of economic frameworks. Little of this work, however, appears to have made any effort to define carefully the boundaries of the relevant market for higher education, which is the subject of this particular...

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Tournament incentives in the field: gender differences in the workplace

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Sol, Joeri; Verbeke, Willem - 2009

We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we introduced short-term sales competitions among subsets of stores. We find that sales competitions have a large effect on sales growth, but only in stores where the store's manager...

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Women Do Not Play Their Aces: The Consequences of Shying Away

Claussen, Jörg; Czibor, Eszter; van Praag, Mirjam C. - 2015

playing behavior consistent with women being more averse towards risk and competition. Moreover, we demonstrate how "shying …

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Gender in Jeopardy!: The Role of Opponent Gender in High-Stakes Competition

Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - 2016

Using 4,279 episodes of the popular US game show Jeopardy!, we analyze whether the opponents' gender is able to explain the gender gap in competitive behavior. Our findings indicate that gender differences disappear when women compete against men. This result is surprising, but emerges with...

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Competition and the Racial Wage Gap: Testing Becker's Model of Employer Discrimination

Hirata, Guilherme; Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2016

discrimination to be observed in the labor market. Increased competition and reduced rents in the market for final goods should … liberalization from the early 1990s to study the effect of increased competition in the market for final goods on racial … there were relatively larger increases in exposure to foreign competition between 1990 and 1995, there were also relatively …

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