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The Effects of Competition and Equal Treatment Laws on the Gender Wage Differential
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261556
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Gender differences in competition emerge early in life
Sutter, Matthias; Rützler, Daniela - 2010
We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the younger ones we find that boys are much more likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269847
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Gender, competition and the efficiency of policy interventions
Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2010
Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …
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Gender differences and dynamics in competition: The role of luck
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2010
help to explain both female underperformance in environments with repeated competition and the tendency for women to select …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269929
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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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