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New Workplace Practices and the Gender Wage Gap: Can the New Economy be the Great Equalizer?

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Eriksson, Tor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We estimate the effect of introducing new workplace practices on the gender gap in wages in the manufacturing sector …. We use a unique 1999 survey on work and compensation practices of Danish private sector firms merged to a large matched … work practices. Our estimates from a difference-in-differences model of wages and work practices show that the wage gains …

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Male and Female Competitive Behavior: Experimental Evidence

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a tournament and a piece-rate pay scheme before performing a real...

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