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Male and female competitive behavior : experimental evidence

Gupta, Nabanita Datta (contributor); … - 2005

social norms whose nature and origin we discuss. -- competition ; tournament ; piece rate ; gender ; risk-aversion ; relative … such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our experiment subjects choose between a …

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What does someone's gender identity signal to employers?

Borm, Hannah Van; Dhoop, Marlot; Acker, Allien Van; … - 2020

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the mechanisms underlying hiring discrimination against transgender men. Design/methodology/approach - The authors conduct a scenario experiment with final-year business students in which fictitious hiring decisions are made about transgender or...

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What does someone's gender identity signal to employers?

Borm, Hannah Van; Dhoop, Marlot; Acker, Allien Van; … - 2020

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Competitiveness and Employability

Demiral, Elif; Mollerstrom, Johanna - 2022

We investigate the impact on perceived and actual employability when job candidates signal different personal tastes for competitions. Using three experiments, with over 2000 participants in total, we show that candidates who are not willing to compete at all risk being perceived as less...

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Gender wage gaps and risky vs. secure employment : an experimental analysis

Jung, Seeun; Choe, Chung; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2016

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of … more likely than men to select the secure job, and these job choices accounted for between 40% and 77% of the gender wage …

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Gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Heckman, James J.; … - 2009

This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing … the differences in ambiguity. -- Gender ; risk aversion ; ambiguity aversion …

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Gender differentiation in risk-taking behavior : On the relative risk aversion of single men and single women

Stark, Oded; Zawojska, Ewa - 2015

We relate an observed difference between single men (SM) and single women (SW) in attitudes towards risk to the higher value assigned to social status by SM than by SW. In the marriage market, low status carries a harsher penalty for SM than for SW because when selecting a partner, the social...

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