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In this study, we examine the influence of competitiveness on the stability of labour relations using the example of … growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … competitiveness and labour market success and whether these effects depend on how the students' propensity to compete is measured. By …
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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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manipulates the degree of competitiveness of the environment under equivalent monetary incentives. We find that competition …This paper studies if competition affects subsequent risk-taking behaviour by means of a laboratory experiment that …
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We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as preference for favorable inequality affect competitive choices differently among males and females. We find that selection into competitive environments is: (a) negatively...
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, 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 …
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Studying competitiveness and risk-taking among Jeopardy! contestants in the US, this paper analyzes whether and how … (aged 13–17), and 299 undergraduate college students. We measure competitiveness via the likelihood of (i) winning an …
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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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. Men also increase their willingness to enter competition in the presence of ambiguity. Overall, both effects contribute to …
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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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. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as a potential explanation. Using an incentivized measure of … competitiveness, this paper investigates whether competitiveness explains future gender differences in earnings and industry choice in … counterparts do. Moreover, gender differences in competitiveness explain around 10% of the overall gender gap. We also find that …
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