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Gender differences in paid performance under competition have been found in many laboratory-based experiments, and it … the subject competes with three other individuals and the winner takes all; (ii) an anonymized competition in which an … individual competes against an imposed production target and is paid only if s/he exceeds it; (iii) a 'personified' competition …
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competition. Our subjects (students just under 15 years of age) attend publicly-funded single-sex and coeducational schools. We …
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increasingly hindered by psychological stress and risk aversion as competition is higher. Finally, we use panel data to estimate …
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product market competition. We ask whether there is a case for under-provision of training in Europe and examine alternative …
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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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In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different returns and focus especially on those incorporating...
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