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Performance pay, competitiveness, and the gender wage gap : evidence from the United States

McGee, Andrew D.; McGee, Peter; Pan, Jessica - 2014

Evidence that women are less likely to opt into competitive compensation schemes in the laboratory has generated speculation that a gender difference in competitiveness contributes to the gender wage gap. Using data from the NLSY79 and NLSY97, we show that women are less likely to be employed in...

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The competitive earning incentive for sons : evidence from migration in China

Li, Wenchao; Yi, Junjian - 2015

This paper first finds a clear pattern of child gender difference in family migration in China. Specifically, our estimates show that on average, the first child being a son increases the father's migration probability by 25.2 percent. We hypothesize that the family's competitive earning...

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Pacts for employment and competitiveness as a role model? : their effects on firm performance

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - 2015

Pacts for employment and competitiveness are an integral component of the ongoing process of decentralization of collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is known about the effects of pacts on firm performance....

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Preemptive behavior in sequential tournaments

Jost, Peter-J.; Kräkel, Matthias - 2000

Rank-order tournaments are usually modeled simultaneously. However, real tournaments are often sequentially. We show that agents' strategic behavior significantly differs in sequential tournaments compared to simultaneous tournaments. In a sequential tournament, under certain conditions the...

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Parental time investments in children : the role of competition for university places in the UK

Sevilla, Almudena; Borra, Cristina - 2015

document that increased competition for university places at elite institutions in the United Kingdom contributes to explain … growing gaps in time investments between college and non-college educated parents. Competition for university places in the UK …

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Unions, tripartite competition and innovation

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2020

We present theoretical and empirical evidence challenging results from early studies that found unions were detrimental to workplace innovation. Under our theoretical model, which extends the Cournot duopoly innovation model, local union wage bargaining is more conducive to innovation -...

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The effects of local market concentration and international competition on firm productivity : evidence from Mexico

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; López-Calva, Luis F.; … - 2020

Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...

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Market competition and discrimination

Siddique, Abu; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Zenou, Yves - 2020

This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in the context … of the rice market in Bangladesh. We recruit professional rice buyers (middlemen) to act as judges in a rice competition … competition in the marketplace, do not price discriminate against ethnic minority farmers. A second lab-in-the-field experiment …

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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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Why does emissions trading under the EU ETS not affect firms' competitiveness? : empirical findings from the literature

Joltreau, Eugénie; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2017

Environmental policies may have important consequences for firms' competitiveness or profit-ability. However, the empirical literature shows that hardly any statistically significant effects on firms can be detected for the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). We explain why there...

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