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Gender quotas, competitions, and peer review : experimental evidence on the backlash against women
Leibbrandt, Andreas; Wang, Liang Choon; Foo, Cordelia - 2015 - This version: 11 September 2015
This study experimentally investigates gender quotas in light of peer review. We investigate competitions with and without gender quotas and a peer review process that allows for sabotage. Our findings show that the possibility of peer sabotage renders the gender quota ineffective in encouraging...
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Talent, career choice and competition : the gender wage gap at the top
Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2020
product market competition. When the intensity of product market competition increases, hirings and wages for female managers …
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Overconfidence and gender equality in the labor market
Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2023
Gender differences in overconfidence have been extensively documented in the empirical literature, but the implications for labor market outcomes are not well understood. In this paper, we analyze how men's relatively higher overconfidence, combined with competitive job incentives, affects...
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Approval of equal rights and gender differences in well-being
Lalive, Rafael; Stutzer, Alois - 2004
Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens' approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss constitution as a proxy for the norm that "women and men shall...
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Import competition and gender differences in labor reallocation
Mansour, Hani; Medina, Pamela; Velásquez, Andrea - 2022
. The empirical strategy relies on variation in import competition across local labor markets based on their industrial … composition before China entered the global market in 2001. In contrast to much of the existing literature, we find that import … competition did not have persistent negative employment effects on men or led them to sort into the non-tradable or informal …
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Gender discrimination in competitive markets
Marjit, Sugata; Oladi, Reza - 2022
forces of competition would restrict subjective discrimination which leads to increasing cost for a firm and reduce the …
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The effect of unfair chances and gender discrimination on labor supply
Gagnon, Nickolas; Bosmans, Kristof; Riedl, Arno - 2020
Labor market opportunities and wages may be unfair for various reasons, and how workers respond to different types of unfairness can have major economic consequences. Using an online labor platform, where workers engage in an individual task for a piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal...
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The gender wage gap : extent, trends, and explanations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2016
Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender wage gap, which declined considerably over this period. By 2010, conventional human capital variables taken together explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender...
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The gender gap in entrepreneurship : not just a matter of personality
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2014
Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent personality traits, human capital, and the employment history influence the start-up decision and can explain the gender gap in...
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The sources of the gender gap in economics enrolment
Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - 2014
In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an important stepping stone towards positions of influence in policy making and occupations paying relatively high wages. We investigate the sources of this gap by looking in detail...
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