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Market orientation and gender wage gaps : an international study

Zweimüller, Martina (contributor); … - 2007

in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in …

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Gender and self-selection into a competitive environment : are women more overconfident than men?

Nekby, Lena (contributor); … - 2007

Using a large running race in Sweden, this study shows that there are male-dominated environments in which the selection of women who participate are more likely to be confident/competitive and that, within this group, performance improves equally for both genders.

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Interdependency in performance

Haraguchi, Kelii H. (contributor); … - 2007

We empirically model performance in the final round of a multiple-round tournament as a spatially autoregressive process, allowing us to sign and quantify the endogenous interactions between competitors. Doing so speaks to significant regularities in the data that suggest that a player's own...

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Discrete innovation, continuous improvement, and competitive pressure

Ghosh, Arghya (contributor); Kato, Takao (contributor); … - 2007

Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental improvements and modifications made upon the...

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Cooperation, competition, and risk attitudes: an intergenerational field and laboratory experiment

Charness, Gary (contributor); … - 2007

not more risk-averse, as opposed to the conventional stereotype. Second, both juniors and seniors react to the …

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Gender differences and dynamics in competition : the role of luck

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2010

help to explain both female underperformance in environments with repeated competition and the tendency for women to select … gap ; competition ; competition aversion ; tournament ; luck ; win ; loss ; narrow framing …

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School competition and students' entrepreneurial intentions : international evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling

Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

effect of private-school competition on students' entrepreneurial intentions. We exploit Catholic-Church resistance to state … shares, students' academic skills, and parents' entrepreneurial occupation. -- Private school competition ; entrepreneurship …

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Competitive preferences and status as an incentive : experimental evidence

Charness, Gary; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2010

In this paper, we investigate individuals' investment in status in an environment where no monetary return can possibly be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort experiment in which we permit individuals to learn and potentially improve their status (rank). We...

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Job competition and the wage curve

Longhi, Simonetta - 2010

wages; the most widely accepted theoretical explanations interpret the unemployment rate as a measure of job competition …. This paper proposes new ways of measuring job competition, alternative to the unemployment rate, and finds that the … negative relationship still holds when job competition is measured following the job search literature. While for men the wage …

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Strategic behavior across gender : a comparison of female and male expert chess players

Gerdes, Christer; Gränsmark, Patrik - 2010

probability. -- Risk aversion ; competitiveness ; gender ; culture ; mixed-sex competition …This paper aims to measure differences in risk behavior among expert chess players. The study employs a panel data set … rating. In line with previous research, we find that women are more risk-averse than men. A novel finding is that males …

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