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We report on two experiments investigating whether there is a gender difference in thewillingness to compete against oneself (self-competition), similar to what is found whencompeting against others (other-competition). In one laboratory and one online marketexperiment, involving a total of...
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The paper proceeds from the assumption that the inequalities of opportunity between men and women on the labor market …, structural and ideological barriers are identified as the reasons for this severe underrepresentation of women. Increasing the … percentage of women in management positions in the private sector would still require the support of upper-level (male …
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We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to...
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were much more likely to suffer income losses than employees. Among the self-employed, women were 35% more likely to … experience income losses than men, as women are disproportionately working in industries that are more severely affected by the …
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We analyze the impact of women's managerial representation on the gender pay gap among employees on the establishment … share of women in management significantly reduces the gender pay gap within the firm. An increase in the share of women in … percent by 1.2 percentage points, i.e. to roughly 14 percent. The effect is stronger for women in second-level than first …
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the devaluation of women's work, we find wage penalties for female occupations in management only in large firms. This …
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.204 log points. These declines are larger than estimates that do not account for selection. Our results suggest that women …
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the gender gap in annual earnings is largely driven by women's lower work experience and intensive margin of labor supply …, ranging from 17.8 percent for childless women to 68.0 percent for women with three or more children. However, using a … counterfactual analysis we find that the adjusted gender lifetime earnings gap of 10 percent differs only slightly by women's family …
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longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a …-employed women who were directly affected by government-imposed restrictions and bore an increased childcare burden due to school and …
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differences. We contribute to this literature by exploring a different research question: if wages of women are systematically …
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