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Does team competition eliminate the gender gap in entry in competitive environments ?.
Dargnies, Marie-Pierre - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2009
This paper studies the impact of the possibility to enter a tournament as a team on the gender gap in tournament entry …. While a large and siignificant gender gap in entry in the individual tournament is found in line with the literature, no … gender gap is found in entry in the team tournament. While women do not choose to enter the tournament significantly more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012504
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Does team competition eliminate the gender gap in entry in competitive environments ?
Dargnies, Marie-Pierre - HAL - 2009
This paper studies the impact of the possibility to enter a tournament as a team on the gender gap in tournament entry …. While a large and significant gender gap in entry in the individual tournament is found in line with the literature, no … gender gap is found in entry in the team tournament. While women do not choose to enter the tournament significantly more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738631
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Gender Differences and Dynamics in Competition: The Role of Luck
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - Economics Group, Nuffield College, Department of Economics - 2013
In a real effort experiment with repeated competition we find striking differences in how the work effort of men and women responds to previous wins and losses. For women losing per se is detrimental to productivity, but for men a loss impacts negatively on productivity only when the prize at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010859552
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Gender differences and dynamics in competition: the role of luck
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In a real effort experiment with repeated competition we find striking differences in how the work effort of men and women responds to previous wins and losses. For women losing per se is detrimental to productivity, but for men a loss impacts negatively on productivity only when the prize at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112871
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Gender gap in patenting activities: Evidence from Iran
Eshtehardi, Mojgan Samandar Ali; Bagheri, Seyed Kamran - 2015
This study investigated gender differences in innovative behaviour and technological change in Iran by using data on patents granted to Iranians in Iran and their demographic characteristics. Descriptive analysis was used to compare gender involvement and cooperation in patent activities. In...
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Older sisters and younger brothers: The impact of siblings on preference for competition
Okudaira, Hiroko; Kinari, Yusuke; Mizutani, Noriko; … - 2014
Studies in psychology have long argued the possibility that sibling structure, such as birth order and the gender of siblings, shapes one's feminine and masculine personality traits, such as a preference for competition. In light of recent developments in the economics literature on the gender...
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Full-time Workers Want to Work Fewer Hours, Part-time Workers Want to Work Longer Hours
Holst, Elke - In: Weekly Report 5 (2009) 19, pp. 130-137
Since the reunification of Germany, average working times for men and women have followed different trends. There are various reasons for the difference. More and more women are gainfully employed; they engage in part-time and marginal employment, both of which are on the rise. The importance of...
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Vollzeitbeschäftigte wollen kürzere, Teilzeitbeschäftigte längere Arbeitszeiten
Holst, Elke - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 25, pp. 409-415
Die durchschnittlichen Arbeitszeiten haben sich für Frauen und Männer seit der deutschen Vereinigung unterschiedlich entwickelt. Dies hat verschiedene Ursachen: Frauen sind immer häufiger erwerbstätig, Teilzeitarbeit und geringfügige Beschäftigung wird immer häufiger ausgeübt und die...
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The intergenerational transfer of the employment gender gap
Haaland, Venke Furre; Rege, Mari; Telle, Kjetil; … - 2014
Despite well-documented convergence during the later years of the 20th century, labor market attachment remains markedly higher for men than for women. The current paper employs rich longitudinal registry data to investigate the intergenerational transfer of the gender gap in employment. We...
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Closing the gender gap in pensions. A microsimulation analysis of the Norwegian NDC pension system
Halvorsen, Elin; Pedersen, Axel West - 2017
In this paper we use an advanced micro-simulation model to study the distributional effects of the reformed Norwegian pension system with a particular focus on gender equality. The reformed Norwegian system is based on the NDC-formula with fixed contribution/accrual rates over the active...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968625