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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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Gender wage gaps and risky vs. secure employment : an experimental analysis

Jung, Seeun; Choe, Chung; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2016

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … exposure to unemployment) and a secure job after being assigned in early rounds to both types of jobs. Both jobs involve the …

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Work experience as a source of specification error in earnings models : implications for gender wage decompositions

Regan, Tracy L. (contributor); Oaxaca, Ronald L. (contributor) - 2006

We address the bias from using potential vs. actual experience in earnings models. Statistical tests reject the classical errors-in-variable framework. The nature of the measurement error is best viewed as a model misspecification problem. We correct for this by modeling actual experience as a...

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What's the risk from competing? : competition aversion and the gender wage gap

Choe, Chung; Jung, Seeun; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2022

. Relatively less risk averse subjects are assigned to a risky job track involving a known constant probability of unemployment in …

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Gender differences in economics PhD field specializations with correlated choices

Sierminska, Eva; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2021

We model the process of field specialization choice among beginning economists within a multivariate logit framework that accommodates single and dual primary field specializations and incorporates correlations among field specialization choices. Conditioning on personal, economic, and...

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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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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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