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unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …
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We use a controlled experiment widely adopted in the literature to assess the extent of gender differences in attitudes … towards competition in a sample of UK professionals working in two different companies. We find no gender differences in … it is important to avoid generalisations on the presence of gender gaps in attitudes towards competition. This being the …
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We report on two experiments investigating whether there is a gender difference in thewillingness to compete against … one online marketexperiment, involving a total of 1,200 participants, we replicate the gender-gap inwillingness to other …-compete but find no evidence of a gender difference in the willingnessto self-compete. We explore the roles of risk and confidence …
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This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …
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This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012428940
This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430674
This paper uses a field experiment to study the effect of perceived gender norms on the motherhood penalty in the … exogenous variation in gender norms by prominently signaling patrilineal or matrilineal community origins of applicants …
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Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences … striving towards gender equality, this opens up new possibilities for institutionalizing competitive pressure. …
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administrative data to understand what drives gender bias in such evaluations in the technology industry. Our results highlight the … performance measures does not reduce the gender gap. Our second experiment removed video interaction, and compared blind to non …-blind evaluations. No gender gap is present in either case. These results rule out traditional economic models of discrimination …
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administrative data to understand what drives gender bias in such evaluations in the technology industry. Our results highlight the … measures does not reduce gender gaps. Our second experiment compares blind to non-blind evaluations without video interaction …: There is no gender gap in either case. These results rule out traditional models of discrimination. Instead, we show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015046237