related to preference for favorable inequality, with significant gender differences in the impact of these distributional … characteristics to vary by gender, the pure gender effect is explained away. We find that gender gaps in distributional preferences … along with selected personality traits are the most relevant explanations for gender differences in willingness to compete …

We show that choices in competitive behavior may entail a gender wage gap. In our experi ments, employees first choose … pie size the employee has generated, the remuneration scheme chosen, and the employee's gender. Employers then decide how … the pie will be split, as in a dictator game. Whereas employers do not discriminate by gender when tournaments are chosen …

competition aversion for generating gender wage gaps. Cross-subject design treatment and control experiments suggest that gender … each period. The gender wage gap contribution of gender differences in competition aversion compared with the contribution …Laboratory experiments involving a real effort task are conducted to examine the importance of gender differences in …

We show that choices in competitive behavior may entail a gender wage gap. In our experiments, employees first choose a … employee has generated, the remuneration scheme chosen, and the employee's gender. Employers then decide how the pie will be … split, as in a dictator game. Whereas employers do not discriminate by gender when tournaments are chosen, they take …

at gender differences in bargaining behavior and in the effect of nominal weights. We find that women and men differ in … gender-specific effects. …

piece-rate scheme, individuals in a winner-takes-all competition are significantly less cooperative in the public goods game …. A lottery treatment, where the winner is decided by luck, has the same effect. In a competition treatment with feedback …

We examine behavioral gender differences and gender pairing effects in a laboratory experiment with face … than female employers pay to male employees. Moreover, we find gender differences in the first offers of the bargaining … game. -- gender differences ; wage bargaining ; labor market experiment …

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 …

preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main … into tournaments. Sixth, variable pay schemes attract men more than women, a difference that is partly explained by gender … different abilities, preferences, self-assessments, gender and personalities. -- personnel economics ; sorting ; incentives …