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Gender quotas, competitions, and peer review : experimental evidence on the backlash against women
Leibbrandt, Andreas; Wang, Liang Choon; Foo, Cordelia - 2015 - This version: 11 September 2015
This study experimentally investigates gender quotas in light of peer review. We investigate competitions with and without gender quotas and a peer review process that allows for sabotage. Our findings show that the possibility of peer sabotage renders the gender quota ineffective in encouraging...
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Talent, career choice and competition : the gender wage gap at the top
Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2020
product market competition. When the intensity of product market competition increases, hirings and wages for female managers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306601
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Gender quotas, competitions, and peer review : experimental evidence on the backlash against women
Leibbrandt, Andreas; Wang, Liang Choon; Foo, Cordelia - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 64 (2018) 8, pp. 3501-3516
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Overconfidence and gender equality in the labor market
Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2023
Using a promotion signaling model in which wages are realistically shaped by market forces, we analyze how male overconfidence combined with competitive workplace incentives affects gender equality in the labor market. Our main result is that overconfident workers exert more effort to be...
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Overconfidence and gender equality in the labor market
Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2023
Gender differences in overconfidence have been extensively documented in the empirical literature, but the implications for labor market outcomes are not well understood. In this paper, we analyze how men's relatively higher overconfidence, combined with competitive job incentives, affects...
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How competitiveness may cause a gender wage gap : experimental evidence
Heinz, Matthias; Normann, Hans-Theo; Rau, Holger A. - 2016
We show that choices in competitive behavior may entail a gender wage gap. In our experi ments, employees first choose a remuneration scheme (competitive tournament vs. piece rate) and then conduct a real-effort task. Employers know the pie size the employee has generated, the remuneration...
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Competitiveness and the gender gap among yung business professionals
Reuben, Ernesto; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - 2015
Important gender differences in earnings and career trajectories persist. Particularly, in professions such as business. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as a potential explanation. Using an incentivized measure of competitiveness, this paper investigates whether...
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Do gays shy away from competition? : do lesbians compete too much?
Buser, Thomas; Geijtenbeek, Lydia; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2015
It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this paper we study whether differences in competitive preferences, which have emerged as a likely determinant of labour market differences between men and women, can provide a...
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The levelling effect of product market competition on gender wage discrimination
Hirsch, Boris; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - 2014
Using linked employer-employee panel data for West Germany that include direct information on the competition faced by … plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we … find that intensified competition significantly lowers the unexplained gap in plants with neither collective agreements nor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375829
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The levelling effect of product market competition on gender wage discrimination
Hirsch, Boris; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - 2014
Using linked employer–employee panel data for West Germany that include direct information on the competition faced by … plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we … find that intensified competition significantly lowers the unexplained gap in plants with neither collective agreements nor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010378351