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Multitasking: Productivity Effects and Gender Differences

Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

our experiment perform two different tasks according to three treatments: one where they perform the tasks sequentially …

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Diffusion of a Social Norm: Tracing the Emergence of the Housewife in the Netherlands, 1812-1922

Poppel, Frans W.A. van; Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Walhout, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

The emergence of the housewife in the Netherlands over the period 1812-1922 was strongly influenced by the social norm that women should withdraw from the labour market on the eve of marriage. Adherence to this norm is most clearly reflected in the emergence of the housewife among the lower...

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The Impact of Female Sex Hormones on Competitiveness

Buser, Thomas - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

contraceptives to determine the importance of sex hormones in explaining gender differences in competitiveness. Participants in a … laboratory experiment solve a simple arithmetics task first under a piece rate and then under a competitive tournament scheme … of progesterone on competitiveness and our results therefore provide a partial biological explanation for gender …

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Tournament Incentives in The Field: Gender Differences in The Workplace

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Sol, Joeri; Verbeke, Willem - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we … growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably … tournament. Lastly, despite the substantial variation in team size, we find no evidence for free-riding. …

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Wage Dispersion in Russia

Grogan, L.A. - Tinbergen Institute - 1997

. Much more of Russian wage dispersion can be explained by regional and gender-based wage differentials. Labour markets are …

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Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male-Female Earnings

Müller, Gerrit; Plug, Erik - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <A href="http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1246&context=ilrreview"><I>Industrial & Labor Relations Review</I></A>.

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Seeing the World with Different Eyes

Koellinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria; Schade, Christian - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

Across countries, women own significantly fewer businesses than do men. We show that this is due, in large part, to the fact that the propensity to start businesses of women is significantly lower than that of men. The lower propensity of women, in turn, appears to be highly correlated to...

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Decomposing the Gender Wage Gap in the Netherlands with Sample Selection Adjustments

Albrecht, James; Vuuren, Aico van; Vroman, Susan - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

In this paper, we use quantile regression decomposition methods to analyze the gender gap between men and women who …, sample selection is a serious issue. In addition to shedding light on the sources of the gender gap in the Netherlands, we … experience with the remainder due to unobservables. Our decompositions show that the majority of the gender log wage gap is due …

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Gender Differences, HIV Risk Perception and Condom Use

Lammers, Judith; Wijnbergen, Sweder van; Willebrands, Daan - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

We analyze how HIV-knowledge influences condom use across the sexes. The empirical work is based on a household survey conducted among 1,979 households of a representative group of market persons in Lagos in 2008. Last-time-condom-use is analyzed based on a Probit model while correcting for...

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Why less? The Gendered Aspects of Small- and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) Ownership under Economic Transition

Aidis, Ruta - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

This paper explores the gendered influence on SME development under economic transition in Lithuania. Previous studies have shown that male and female business owners are more different than similar in terms of personal and business characteristics (Brush 1992). An analysis of 332 SME owners in...

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