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Competiton and the gender wage gap: new evidence from linked employer-employee data in Hungary, 1986 - 2003

Lovász, Anna (contributor) - 2008

Hungary. During the same time period, firms faced increased competition from both new domestic and foreign firms due to the … that employers that discriminate against women may be forced out of the market by competition in the long run, leading to a …-2003. I estimate the effect of variation in various measures of product market competition, including trade variables, on the …

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Competition, takeovers and gender discrimination

Heyman, Fredrik (contributor); Svaleryd, Helena (contributor) - 2008

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Competition, takeovers and gender discrimination

Heyman, Fredrik; Svaleryd, Helena; Vlachos, Jonas - 2008

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Do gender differences in preferences for competition matter for occupational expectations?

Kleinjans, Kristin J. - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 30 (2009) 5, pp. 701-710

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How competitiveness may cause a gender wage gap : experimental evidence

Heinz, Matthias; Normann, Hans-Theo; Rau, Holger A. - 2016

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...

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Competitiveness and the gender gap among yung business professionals

Reuben, Ernesto; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - 2015

Important gender differences in earnings and career trajectories persist. Particularly, in professions such as business. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as a potential explanation. Using an incentivized measure of competitiveness, this paper investigates whether...

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Do gays shy away from competition? : do lesbians compete too much?

Buser, Thomas; Geijtenbeek, Lydia; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2015

It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this paper we study whether differences in competitive preferences, which have emerged as a likely determinant of labour market differences between men and women, can provide a...

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Competition, takeovers, and gender discrimination

Heyman, Fredrik; Svaleryd, Helena; Vlachos, Jonas - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 66 (2013) 2, pp. 409-432

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Market orientation and gender wage gaps : an international study

Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2007

in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in … Index with lower gender wage gaps. -- gender wage gap ; competition ; market orientation …

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The levelling effect of product market competition on gender wage discrimination

Hirsch, Boris; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - 2014

Using linked employer-employee panel data for West Germany that include direct information on the competition faced by … plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we … find that intensified competition significantly lowers the unexplained gap in plants with neither collective agreements nor …

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