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Constructing gender differences in the economics lab
Boschini, Anne; Muren, Astri; Persson, Mats - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 84 (2012) 3, pp. 741-752
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Social attitudes on gender equality and firms' discriminatory pay-setting
Janssen, Simon; Tuor Sartore, Simone N.; … - 2014
We analyze the relationship between social attitudes on gender equality and firms' pay-setting behavior by combining information about regional votes relative to gender equality laws with a large data set of multi-branch firms and workers. The results show that multi-branch firms pay more...
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Social Attitudes on Gender Equality and Firms' Discriminatory Pay-Setting
Janssen, Simon - 2014
We analyze the relationship between social attitudes on gender equality and firms' pay-setting behavior by combining information about regional votes relative to gender equality laws with a large data set of multi-branch firms and workers. The results show that multi-branch firms pay more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058311
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Gender Differences in Response to Competitive Organization? Differences Across Fields from a Product Development Platform Field Experiment
Boudreau, Kevin; Kaushik, Nilam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Prior research, primarily based on lab experiments, suggests that females might be more averse to competition than males and could be more inclined towards collaboration, instead. Were these findings to generalize to adults across the workforce, there could be profound implications for...
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Stress reactions cannot explain the gender gap in willingness to compete
Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Mollerstrom, Johanna - 2015
Women are often less willing than men to compete, even in tasks where there is no gender gap in performance. Also, many people experience competitive contexts as stressful and previous research has documented that men and women sometimes react differently to acute stressors. We use two...
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The flipside of comparative payment schemes
Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna - 2013
Comparative payment schemes and tournament-style promotion mechanisms are ubiquitous in the work place. We test experimentally whether they have a negative impact on the willingness to cooperate. Participants first perform in a simple task and then participate in a public goods game. The payment...
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How Stress Affects Performance and Competitiveness across Gender
Cahlikova, Jana - 2017
Since many key career events, such as exams and interviews, involve competition and stress, gender differences in response to these factors could help to explain the labor-market gender gap. In a laboratory experiment, we manipulate psychosocial stress using the Trier Social Stress Test, and...
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Partnership, gender roles and the well-being cost of unemployment
2012
cognitive, but not on affective well-being, which we interpret as a loss in identity utility. Living in a partnership … strengthens the loss in identity utility of men, but weakens that of women. Unemployment of a person's partner reduces the … identity loss of unemployed men, but raises it for women. These results suggest that the unemployed's feeling of identity is …
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Mastering survivorship : how brands facilitate the transformation to heroic survivor
Hollenbeck, Candice R.; Patrick, Vanessa M. - In: Journal of business research : JBR 69 (2016) 1, pp. 73-82
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Narrating career, positioning identity and constructing gender in an Italian adolescent's personal narratives
Pizzorno, Maria Chiara; Benozzo, Angelo; Carey, Neil - In: Journal of vocational behavior 88 (2015), pp. 195-204
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