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Who's Afraid of Women's Football? Gender Inequality and Football Success
Prinz, Aloys - 2018
In this paper, we study the applicability of success in women's football as an indicator for female empowerment. Since … football was for a long time a male-dominated sport, women's success in this sport may be a suitable empowerment measure. As a … proxy variable for success, we employ the world ranking of women football teams. Applying Dijkstra's requirements for …
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Extreme Wages, Performance and Superstars in a Market for Footballers
Scarfe, Rachel - 2020
salary spending by the teams affects their relative performance in football terms, or that the amounts the teams spend on …
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Career prospects and effort incentives : evidence from professional soccer
Miklós-Thal, Jeanine; Ullrich, Hannes - 2014
It is difficult to test the prediction that future career prospects create implicit effort incentives because researchers cannot randomly “assign” career prospects to economic agents. To overcome this challenge, we use data from professional soccer, where employees of the same club face...
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Regulatory compensation limits and business performance : evidence from the National Football League
Petutschnig, Matthias - 2017
from the National Football League (NFL). The results show a significant negative relation between the success of NFL teams …
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Career prospects and effort incentives : evidence from professional soccer
Miklós-Thal, Jeanine; Ullrich, Hannes - 2014
It is difficult to test the prediction that future career prospects create implicit effort incentives because researchers cannot randomly “assign” career prospects to economic agents. To overcome this challenge, we use data from professional soccer, where employees of the same club face...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442390
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The Gender Pay Gap : Pay for Performance and Sorting across Employers
Bradley, Daniel; Knill, April M.; Lowry, Michelle; … - 2022
We document a gender pay gap among business professors at Florida public universities. Part of this gap is driven by the fact that females are disproportionately likely to work at schools with low pay, controlling for faculty productivity. However, this sorting effect does not completely explain...
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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 risktaking towards the end of matches when a successful risky strategy could secure winning the match. Female teams, in...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496948
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The Widening Gender Gap
Chichilnisky, Graciela - 2019
What explains the persistence of the gender gap? The World Economic Forum Gender Gap Index documents the persistence of the gender gap and, more surprising yet, the data validates that in the last decade the gender gap has grown wider. Why? We provide here a rational market explanation of the...
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Market orientation and gender wage gaps : an international study
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2007
Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientation and gender wage differentials in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in product and labor markets and the general absence of...
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