We study the differences in behavior of males and females in a two-player tournament with sabotage in a controlled lab … experiment. Implementing a real-effort design and a principal who is paid based on the agent s output, we find that males and … significantly more sabotage leading to an on average higher winning probability but not to higher profits. If the gender of the …

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 scheme chosen, and the employee's gender. Employers then decide how …

overconfidence combined with competitive workplace incentives affects gender equality in the labor market. Our main result is that …

, combined with competitive job incentives, affects gender equality in the labor market and discuss policy implications. The …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 …

We show that choices in competitive behavior may entail a gender wage gap. In our experiments, 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 scheme chosen, and the employee's gender. Employers then decide how the pie will be …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. Subjects … rate, a tournament or a revenue-sharing scheme. We find that output is higher in the variable pay schemes (piece rate …, tournament, and revenue sharing) compared to the fixed payment scheme. This difference is largely driven by productivity sorting …

differences between men and women, can provide a plausible explanation. We conduct an experiment on a Dutch online survey panel to …

In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … returns and focus especially on those incorporating pyschological factors as an explanation of the gender gap. Research areas … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …

We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as … on females' choice of the tournament wage scheme, and (b) negatively associated with behindness aversion and positively … related to preference for favorable inequality, with significant gender differences in the impact of these distributional …

competition aversion for generating gender wage gaps. Cross-subject design treatment and control experiments suggest that gender … differences in risk aversion play no significant role in competitive (tournament) vs. piece-rate job choices and consequent gender … each period. The gender wage gap contribution of gender differences in competition aversion compared with the contribution …