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The Austrian pay transparency law and the gender wage gap

Böheim, René; Gust, Sarah - 2021

In Austria, a gender pay transparency law was introduced in 2011, requiring companies with more than 1,000 employees to publish a pay report every other year. Firms with 500, 250, and 150 employees were subject to this requirement at later years. We estimate the impact of the law on men's wages,...

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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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Wage differences between men and women in Austria : evidence from 1983 and 1997

Böheim, René (contributor); Hofer, Helmut (contributor); … - 2005

mean gender wage gap which cannot be explained, i.e. discrimination against women, dropped from 18 to 15.5 per cent of men …'s wages. The drop in discrimination is the main reason for the narrowing of the gender wage gap. …

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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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Gender and competition : evidence from jumping competitions

Böheim, René; Lackner, Mario - 2013

We analyze if female athletes differ from male athletes in their competitive behavior, using data from high jump and pole vault competitions. We estimate if female athletes use risky strategies as often as male athletes and whether or not their returns to risky strategies differ. Returns to...

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Gender quotas : challenging the boards, performance, and the stock market

Ferrari, Giulia; Ferraro, Valeria; Profeta, Paola; … - 2016

In 2011, Italy introduced gender quotas for boards of directors of companies listed on its stock market. Comparing before and after the reform within firms, we find that quotas are associated with a higher share of female board directors, higher levels of education of board members, and a lower...

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Gender differences in risk-taking : evidence from professional basketball

Böheim, René; Freudenthaler, Christoph; Lackner, Mario - 2016

We analyze gender differences in risk-taking in high-pressure situations. Using novel data from professional athletes (NBA and WNBA), we find that male teams increase their risk-taking towards the end of matches when a successful risky strategy could secure winning the match. Female teams, in...

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Stressed out on four continents : time crunch or yuppie kvetch?

Hamermesh, Daniel S. (contributor); Lee, Jungmin (contributor) - 2005

Social commentators have pointed to problems of workers who face "time stress" an absence of sufficient time to accomplish all their tasks. An economic theory views time stress as reflecting how tightly the time constraint binds households. Time stress will be more prevalent in households with...

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Do board gender quotas matter? : selection, performance and stock market effects

Ferrari, Giulia; Ferraro, Valeria; Profeta, Paola; … - 2018

From business to politics and academia, the economic effects of the introduction of gender quotas are under scrutiny. We provide new evidence based on the introduction of mandatory gender quotas for boards of directors of Italian companies listed on the stock market. Comparing before and after...

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Raising the bar : causal evidence on gender differences in risk-taking from a natural experiment

Böheim, René; Lackner, Mario; Wagner, Wilhelm - 2020

We analyze data from top-tier professional athletes and find that female and male athletes differ in the timing and in the extent of their reactions to a change of the rules which increased the risk of failure. Male athletes increased risk-taking in the more risky environment immediately after...

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