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Gender differences in reservation wages in search experiments
McGee, Andrew D.; McGee, Peter - 2023
Women report setting lower reservation wages than men in survey data. We show that women set reservation wages that are 14 to 18 percent lower than men's in laboratory search experiments that control for factors not fully observed in surveys such as offer distributions and outside options. This...
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Parental leave benefits and child penalties
Waights, Sevrin - 2022 - This version: August 2022
I use the universe of tax returns in Germany and a regression kink design to estimate the impact of the benefit amount available to high-earning women after their first childbirth on subsequent within-couple earnings inequality. Lower benefit amounts result in a reduced earnings gap that...
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State coercion and control aversion : an internet study in East and West Germany
Schmelz, Katrin; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - 2019 - This version: September 2019
Do politico-economic systems influence how control affects motivation? We hypothesize that control aversion, meaning crowding-out of intrinsic motivation due to enforcement, has evolved less under the coercive regime of East Germany than under the liberal regime of West Germany. We test this...
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Gender differences in willingness to compete : the role of public observability
Buser, Thomas; Ranehill, Eva; Veldhuizen, Roel van - 2017
A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do so in anonymous environments, real world competitions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011668546
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Gender differences in willingness to compete : the role of public observability
Buser, Thomas; Ranehill, Eva; Veldhuizen, Roel van - 2017
A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do so in anonymous environments, real world competitions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011674139
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Gender differences in willingness to compete : the role of public observability
Buser, Thomas; Ranehill, Eva; Veldhuizen, Roel van - 2017
A recent literature emphasizes the importance of the gender gap in willingness to compete as a partial explanation for gender differences in labor market outcomes. However, whereas experiments investigating willingness to compete typically do so in anonymous environments, real world competitions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705210
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The feminization of occupations and change in wages : a panel analysis of Britain, Germany and Switzerland
Murphy, Emily; Oesch, Daniel - 2015
In the last four decades, women have made major inroads into occupations previously dominated by men. This paper examines whether occupational feminization is accompanied by a decline in wages: Do workers suffer a wage penalty if they remain in, or move into, feminizing occupations? We analzye...
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Sharing norms and negotiations across cultures : experimental interactions within and between Egypt and Germany
Lange, Andreas; Miniesy, Rania; Nicklisch, Andreas; … - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 210 (2023), pp. 412-440
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Parental Leave Benefits and Child Penalties
Waights, Sevrin - 2022
I use the universe of tax returns in Germany and a regression kink design to estimate the impact of the benefit amount available to high-earning women after their first childbirth on subsequent within-couple earnings inequality. Lower benefit amounts result in a reduced earnings gap that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030067
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Global norms, regional practices : Taste-based and statistical discrimination in German asylum decision-making
Gundacker, Lidwina; Kosyakova, Yuliya; Schneider, Gerald - 2021
erroneous decisions. The model of taste-based discrimination suggests that the biases of decision-makers or their peers against … discrimination implies that a dearth of information forces impartial decision-makers to resort to stereotypes. We examine both forms … of discrimination, evaluating whether they shape asylum-seekers' chances to receive protection in Germany, currently a …
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