This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. Subjects …. In addition personal attitudes such as willingness to take risks and relative self-assessment as well as gender affect …

; productivity ; ability ; piece rates ; tournament ; revenue sharing ; risk preferences ; overconfidence ; gender ; experiment …This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first … preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first … preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main … into tournaments. Sixth, variable pay schemes attract men more than women, a difference that is partly explained by gender …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. Subjects …. In addition personal attitudes such as willingness to take risks and relative self-assessment as well as gender affect …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of … more likely than men to select the secure job, and these job choices accounted for between 40% and 77% of the gender wage …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of … more likely than men to select the secure job, and these job choices accounted for between 40% and 77% of the gender wage …

is a gender difference in the reference point, explaining the gender difference in risk aversion observed using … average have a significantly lower reference point. By acknowledging the reference point as a potential source of gender …