This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. Subjects …. In addition personal attitudes such as willingness to take risks and relative self-assessment as well as gender affect …

they overestimated themselves. Men, however, do not seem to be similarly shame-averse. This gender difference may be due to …

Gender differences are often observed in real life-situations. We implement an experiment on the investment game which … explores the influence of knowledge of partner's gender in trust and reciprocity by means of two treatments of information: the … first one, without knowledge of partner's gender and the second treatment where gender's partner is common knowledge. A …

maximization problem of the firm. As a result, monitoring and pay should be complements. In our experiment, between and within …

minorities. Using an economic experiment, this study compares the gender gap in competitive inclination across three ethnic … groups in one county. The Han Chinese have no statistically significant gender gap while the patrilineal Yi women are … hypothesis that institutional changes can narrow the gender gap in competitive inclination. …

This paper reports findings of a laboratory experiment, which explores how elfassessment regarding the own relative …

Since the UN World Conference on Women in 1995 the discussion on gender has been extremely controverse. This issue of … the Journal on Technology Assessment (from ITAS) presents and discuss the topic of gender research, and the relation … between work and life and the changes that are occuring in the spheres of working lifes and daily lifes. Noch im Umfeld der 4 …

, the social dimension of globalization appears to work at the regional level only, while economic globalization (trade …

Ken Arrow (1998) asks, “What has economics to say about racial discrimination?” He replies – entirely correctly – that … by economic theory, but “the hypothesis of employer discrimination does not at all explain segregation by occupation … restrictions imposed both on the set and the relation. This is a methodological weakness of their work relative to that of Arrow …

discrimination, the conceptual reach of economic theory needs extension. I propose a generalization by assigning non … discrimination. …