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Do gays shy away from competition? : do lesbians compete too much?

Buser, Thomas; Geijtenbeek, Lydia; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2015

It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this paper we study whether differences in competitive preferences, which have emerged as a likely determinant of labour market differences between men and women, can provide a...

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Endophilia or exophobia : beyond discrimination

Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2013

The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a … endophilic? This difference matters, as the relative importance of the types of discrimination and their inter-relation affect … or did not contain the students' names, on average we find favoritism but no discrimination by nationality, and neither …

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Do employers discriminate by gender? : a field experiment in female-dominated occupations

Booth, Alison L.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely … to receive a callback, with the difference being largest in occupations that are more female-dominated. -- Discrimination …

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Is there a glass ceiling over Europe? : exploring the gender pay gap across the wages distribution

Arulampalam, Wiji (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Using harmonised data from the European Union Household Panel, we analyse gender pay gaps by sector across the wages distribution for ten countries. We find that the mean gender pay gap in the raw data typically hides large variations in the gap across the wages distribution. We use quantile...

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Cognitive skills, gender and risk preferences

Booth, Alison L.; Katic, Pamela - 2012

In this paper we utilise data from a unique new birth-cohort study to see how the risk preferences of young people are affected by cognitive skills and gender. We find that cognitive ability (measured by the percentile ranking for university entrance at age 18) has no effect on risk preferences...

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The flipside of comparative payment schemes

Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna - 2013

Comparative payment schemes and tournament-style promotion mechanisms are ubiquitous in the work place. We test experimentally whether they have a negative impact on the willingness to cooperate. Participants first perform in a simple task and then participate in a public goods game. The payment...

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The origins of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations: causal evidence from a mentoring intervention

Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2021

We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more pronounced among adolescents with low socioeconomic status...

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The origins of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations : causal evidence from a mentoring intervention

Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2021

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A long-run view of the university gender gap in Australia

Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - 2010

discrimination began to be eroded. These factors, together with a series of supply-side changes, meant that women were more easily …

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Age, cohort and co-authorship

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015

The previously documented trend toward more co- and multi-authored research in economics is partly (perhaps 20 percent) due to different research styles of scholars in different birth cohorts (of different ages). Most of the trend reflects profession-wide changes in research style. Older...

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