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Discrimination in the Labor Market: The Curse of Competition between Workers
Haan, Thomas de; Offerman, Theo; Sloof, Randolph - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
beliefs of the employers are self-fulfilling. Theoretically and in an experiment, we investigate under what circumstances … evidence for statistical discrimination in the standard no-competition setup of Coate and Loury (1993). When we introduce … competition between workers of different groups, the non-discrimination equilibrium ceases to be stable. In line with this …
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Gender, competition and the efficiency of policy interventions
Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2010
Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …
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Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Intervention
Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010
Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552184
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Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Interventions
Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568297
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Promises in contract design
Charness, Gary; Du, Ninghua; Yang, Chun-Lei; Yao, Lan - In: European Economic Review 64 (2013) C, pp. 194-208
In this paper, we propose a new channel of contract design to boost efficiency. If deviating from one's own words induces a self-imposed moral burden, the optimal contracting procedure with regard to cheap talk shall assign the responsibility for installing the nonbinding promise in the contract...
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An individualistic approach to institution formation in public good games
Ramalingam, Abhijit; Godoy, Sara; Morales, Antonio J.; … - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2014
In a repeated public goods setting, we explore whether individuals, acting unilaterally, will provide an effective sanctioning institution. Subjects first choose unilaterally whether they will participate in a sanctioning stage that follows a contribution stage. Only those who gave themselves...
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Can intentions spoil the kindness of a gift? - An experimental study
Strassmair, Christina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Consider a situation where person A undertakes a costly action that benefits person B. This behavior seems altruistic. However, if A expects a reward in return from B, then A's action may be motivated by the expected rewards rather than by pure altruism. The question we address in this...
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The gender wage gap in experimental labor markets
Schwieren, Christiane - In: Economics Letters 117 (2012) 3, pp. 592-595
We analyze the gender wage gap in experimental markets. Women receive but do not request significantly lower wages than men. This hurts firms, as women react with low effort. Additionally, women tend to react differently than men to wage levels.
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How Competitive are Female Professionals? A Tale of Identity Conflict
Cadsby, C. Bram; Servatka, Maros; Song, Fei - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2011
psychological priming, may influence preference for competition. We focus on female professionals for whom these identities may … and chose between piece-rate and competitive-tournament compensation. Identity priming, moderated by gender, significantly …. The implications of our results are profound. The decision to avoid competition made by many female professionals may be …
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Group Identity and Relation-Specific Investment: An Experimental Investigation
Morita, Hodaka; Servátka, Maroš - Department of Economics and Finance, College of … - 2011
in a laboratory experiment. Our subjects are randomly divided into two teams and given their respective team uniforms to …
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