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Gender differences in interpersonal and intrapersonal competitive behavior
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Frank, Rachel; Huet-Vaughn, Emiliano - 2017
, the bulk of the research addresses competition with others and excludes other economically relevant competition that may … contribute to the gender pay gap. In this paper, we ask: How does gender affect how individuals react to competition against … women select into intrapersonal competition at significantly higher rates than interpersonal competition, the first such …
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The shape of luck and competition in winner-take-all tournaments
Ryvkin, Dmitry; Drugov, Mikhail - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 15 (2020) 4, pp. 1587-1626
In winner-take-all tournaments, agents' performance is determined jointly by effort and luck, and the top performer is rewarded. We study the impact of the ''shape of luck'' -- the details of the distribution of performance shocks -- on incentives in such settings. We are concerned with the...
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The effect of losing and winning on cheating and effort in repeated competitions
Necker, Sarah; Paetzel, Fabian - 2022
Competitive rewards are often assigned on a regular basis, e.g., in annual salary negotiations or employee-of-the-month schemes. The repetition of competitions can imply that opponents are matched based on earlier outcomes. Using a real-effort experiment, we examine how cheating and effort...
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Tournament incentives in the field : gender differences in the workplace
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; Sol, Joeri; … - 2012
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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Competition and risk-taking
Gürtler, Oliver; Struth, Lennart; Thon, Max - 2022
potentially leads to a large loss. The current paper studies how such risk-taking behavior depends on the level of competition … that the agents face. We study a tournament model and we find that more intense competition, measured by the number of …
Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10013337710
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Competition and risk-taking
Gürtler, Oliver; Struth, Lennart; Thon, Max - 2022 - Updated version
potentially leads to a large loss. The current paper studies how such risk-taking behavior depends on the level of competition … that the agents face. We study a tournament model and we find that more intense competition, measured by the number of …
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Market competition and executive pay : increased competition affects the pay incentives firms provide to their managers and may also affect overall pay structures
Ferreira, Priscila - 2015
pay and performance. To the extent that product-market competition can affect the incentive schemes offered by firms to … their executives, the analysis of the effects of competition on the structure of compensation may be informative for policy …
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Overconfidence and gender equality in the labor market
Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2023
Using a promotion signaling model in which wages are realistically shaped by market forces, we analyze how male overconfidence combined with competitive workplace incentives affects gender equality in the labor market. Our main result is that overconfident workers exert more effort to be...
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Household specialization and competition for promotion
Bastani, Spencer; Dickmanns, Lisa; Giebe, Thomas; … - 2024
We study how the presence of promotion competition in the labor market affects household specialization patterns. By … specialization reduces the intensity of competition and provides households with consumption smoothing. The specialization result is …
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Overconfidence and gender equality in the labor market
Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2023
Gender differences in overconfidence have been extensively documented in the empirical literature, but the implications for labor market outcomes are not well understood. In this paper, we analyze how men's relatively higher overconfidence, combined with competitive job incentives, affects...
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