men without the element of direct competition, which allows for the identification of psychological effects of competition …

towards competition in a sample of UK professionals working in two different companies. We find no gender differences in … attitudes towards competition nor in performance under a competitive reward scheme. This results qualifies the findings of a … large number of experimental studies that show that women are more likely than men to shy away from competition. We also …

, the bulk of the research addresses competition with others and excludes other economically relevant competition that may … contribute to the gender pay gap. In this paper, we ask: How does gender affect how individuals react to competition against … women select into intrapersonal competition at significantly higher rates than interpersonal competition, the first such …

This paper studies if competition affects subsequent risk-taking behaviour by means of a laboratory experiment that … manipulates the degree of competitiveness of the environment under equivalent monetary incentives. We find that competition …

. Men also increase their willingness to enter competition in the presence of ambiguity. Overall, both effects contribute to …

Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent … of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training … except when the competition is so severe as to threaten liquidation to a firm. We take this as evidence of an inverted U …