In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … returns and focus especially on those incorporating pyschological factors as an explanation of the gender gap. Research areas … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …

This paper examines gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market, using data from the Graduate … is applied. A smaller gender wage gap is found for university graduates than that reported for all workers in earlier … studies. It is shown, however, that the gender wage gap widens with the age at graduation. This pattern is argued to reflect …

Using a choice experiment, we test whether taste-based employee discrimination against ethnic minorities is susceptible … hypothetical wage penalty for discriminatory choice behaviour lowers discrimination and that higher penalties have a greater effect …

findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …, have lower preferences than men for risk and competition, and may be more sensitive to social cues. These gender … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …

discrimination or implicit gender bias …I hire 2,700 workers for a transcription job, randomly assigning the gender of their (fictitious) manager and provision …

We investigate the emergence of discrimination in an experiment where individuals affiliated to different groups … the bids (i.e. there is no statistical discrimination), and she has no monetary incentive to favour the members of her own … group (the bidders are symmetric). We observe nonetheless some discrimination by auctioneers, who tend to assign the prize …

growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … matching a large experimental dataset with administrative data identifying contract terminations, we find that both gender and …

economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices … observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning … rather than inherent gender traits …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first … preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main … into tournaments. Sixth, variable pay schemes attract men more than women, a difference that is partly explained by gender …