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Team incentives: evidence from a firm level experiment

Bandiera, Oriana; Rasul, Imran; Baranky, Iwan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … to form teams with others of similar ability instead of with their friends. Introducing rank incentives however reduces … average productivity by 14%, whereas introducing a tournament increases it by 24%. Both effects are heterogeneous: rank …

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Gender segregation in employment contracts

Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from the ECHPS. Women are over-represented in part-time jobs in all countries considered, but while in northern Europe such allocation roughly reflects women’s preferences and their...

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Gender gaps in unemployment rates in OECD countries

Azmat, Ghazala; Guell, Maia; Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

There is an enormous literature on gender gaps in pay and labour market participation but virtually no literature on gender gaps in unemployment rates. Although there are some countries in which there is essentially no gender gap in unemployment, there are others in which the female unemployment...

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