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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
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 women to enter tournaments and reversing gender pay gaps. Moreover …, we provide evidence of a severe backlash against women, as they become targets of sabotage under gender quotas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343764
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011899872
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Gender differences in competition and sabotage : conference paper
Dato, Simon; Nieken, Petra - 2013
We study the differences in behavior of males and females in a two-player tournament with sabotage in a controlled lab … females do not differ in their achievements in the real effort task but in their choice of sabotage. Males select … significantly more sabotage leading to an on average higher winning probability but not to higher profits. If the gender of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342814
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Competition and career advancement: the hidden costs of paid leave
Johnsen, Julian; Ku, Hyejin; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2020
Does leave-taking matter for young workers' careers? If so, why? We propose the competition effect - relative leave status of workers affecting their relative standing inside the firm - as a new explanation. Exploiting a policy reform that exogenously assigned four-week paid paternity leave to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012266602
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014233644
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249676
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Wage Structure and the Incentive Effect of Promotions
van Herpen, Marco; Cools, Kees; van Praag, Mirjam - 2004
have a clear incentive effect, consistent with a key – not yet tested – prediction of the tournament model. …
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The (Unexpected) Structure of ?Rents? on the French and British Labour Markets
Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - 2004
This paper considers the allocation of labour on the French and British markets, using objective wage and subjective satisfaction data. We show that, in some sectors, workers enjoy both higher wages and higher job satisfaction. We argue that this reflects labour market wage rents. Perhaps...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262172
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Wage structure and labour mobility in the West German private sector 1993-2000
Alda, Holger; Bellmann, Lutz - 2005
Since the early 90's the West German firms have to deal with sharp changes of economic environment: the German Unification, the emerging competitors in the east European countries and the deregulation of several labour market institutions. We analyse the wage structure, the wage changes and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266773
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Promotions, demotions, halo effects and earnings dynamics of American executives
Belzil, Christian; Bognanno, Michael - 2005
This paper explores the dynamics of wage growth in corporate hierarchies. Using panel data techniques, we estimate the causal effect of current and past transitions in reporting level and past earnings growth on components of current earnings and earnings growth using a large panel of US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267385