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How does the gender difference in willingness to compete evolve with experience?
Buser, Thomas - 2016
I study how gender differences in willingness to compete evolve over time in response to experience. Participants in a lab experiment perform the same real-effort task over several rounds. In each round, they have to choose between piece-rate remuneration and a winner-takes-all competition. At...
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Gender promotion gaps : career aspirations and workplace discrimination
Azmat, Ghazala; Cuñat, Vicente; Henry, Emeric - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012199138
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Gender promotion gaps : career aspirations and workplace discrimination
Azmat, Ghazala; Cuñat, Vicente; Henry, Emeric - 2020
Using a nationally representative longitudinal survey of lawyers in the U.S., we document a sizeable gap between men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159081
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The impact of losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges
Buser, Thomas - 2014
How do people react to setbacks and successes? I introduce a new measure of challenge-seeking to determine the effect of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010383874
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Can competitiveness predict education and labor market outcomes? : evidence from incentivized choice and survey measures
Buser, Thomas; Niederle, Muriel; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2020
, representative survey panel. The first is incentivized and is an online adaptation of the laboratory-based Niederle …-Vesterlund measure. The second is an unincentivized survey question eliciting general competitiveness on an 11-point scale. Both measures …
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Public speaking aversion
Buser, Thomas; Yuan, Huaiping - 2020
extraversion. Finally, we elicit these items in a student survey and show that public speaking aversion predicts students' career …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012307410
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Gender, willingness to compete and career choices along the whole ability distribution
Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2017
Men are generally found to be more willing to compete than women and there is growing evidence that willingness to compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most existing evidence comes from the top of the education and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731879
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Gender, willingness to compete and career choices along the whole ability distribution
Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2017
Men are generally found to be more willing to compete than women and there is growing evidence that willingness to compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most existing evidence comes from the top of the education and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715948
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Gender promotion gaps : career aspirations and workplace discrimination
Azmat, Ghazala; Cuñat, Vicente; Henry, Emeric - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014309387