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No gender difference in willingness to compete when competing against self
Apicella, Coren L.; Demiral, Elif E.; Mollerstrom, Johanna - 2017
oneself (self-competition), similar to what is found whencompeting against others (other-competition). In one laboratory and … and suggest that these factorscan account for the different findings. Finally, we document that self-competition does … noworse than other-competition in terms of performance boosting. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595495
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The gender gap in competitiveness : women shy away from competing with others, but not from competing with themselves
Mollerstrom, Johanna; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 22/23, pp. 219-225
Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences between women’s and men’s education and career choices, and the labor market disparities that result. The experiments presented here show that even though women are less willing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011656928
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Discrimination in the Labor Market: The Curse of Competition between Workers
de Haan, Thomas; Offerman, Theo; Sloof, Randolph - 2011
evidence for statistical discrimination in the standard no-competition setup of Coate and Loury (1993). When we introduce … competition between workers of different groups, the non-discrimination equilibrium ceases to be stable. In line with this … theoretical observation, we find systematic discrimination in the experimental treatment with competition. Nevertheless, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326203
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No gender difference in willingness to compete when competing against self
Apicella, Coren L.; Demiral, Elif E.; Mollerstrom, Johanna - 2017
oneself (self-competition), similar to what is found whencompeting against others (other-competition). In one laboratory and … and suggest that these factorscan account for the different findings. Finally, we document that self-competition does … noworse than other-competition in terms of performance boosting. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595951
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Frauen messen sich weniger an anderen als Männer, aber kein Unterschied beim Wettbewerb gegen sich selbst
Mollerstrom, Johanna; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW Wochenbericht 84 (2017) 22, pp. 431-437
Frauen sind im Durchschnitt seltener bereit, in Wettbewerb mit anderen Personen zu treten als Männer. Dieser Gender Gap in der Neigung zu konkurrieren ist einer von vielen Gründen für Unterschiede in den Bildungs- und Karriereentscheidungen von Frauen und Männern und für weitere Gender Gaps...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011661373
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The gender gap in competitiveness: Women shy away from competing with others, but not from competing with themselves
Mollerstrom, Johanna; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 7 (2017) 22/23, pp. 219-225
Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences between women's and men's education and career choices, and the labor market disparities that result. The experiments presented here show that even though women are less willing than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011661379
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Frauen messen sich weniger an anderen als Männer, aber kein Unterschied beim Wettbewerb gegen sich selbst
Mollerstrom, Johanna; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 84 (2017) 22, pp. 431-437
Frauen sind im Durchschnitt seltener bereit, in Wettbewerb mit anderen Personen zu treten als Männer. Dieser Gender Gap in der Neigung zu konkurrieren ist einer von vielen Gründen für Unterschiede in den Bildungs- und Karriereentscheidungen von Frauen und Männern und für weitere Gender Gaps...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657272
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Discrimination in the Labor Market: The Curse of Competition between Workers
Haan, Thomas de; Offerman, Theo; Sloof, Randolph - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
evidence for statistical discrimination in the standard no-competition setup of Coate and Loury (1993). When we introduce … competition between workers of different groups, the non-discrimination equilibrium ceases to be stable. In line with this … theoretical observation, we find systematic discrimination in the experimental treatment with competition. Nevertheless, a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256510
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Reference points in renegotiations : the role of contracts and competition
Bartling, Björn; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012
Several recent papers argue that contracts provide reference points that affect ex post behavior. We test this hypothesis in a canonical buyer-seller relationship with renegotiation. Our paper provides causal experimental evidence that an initial contract has a highly significant and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571567
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The impact of losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges
Buser, Thomas - 2014
of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010383874