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 …

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 …

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 …

mentioned explanation could be differences in the attitude towards competition for both genders. Abundant empirical evidence … indicates that multiple influences shape attitudes towards competition during different periods of the life cycle. Gender …

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 …

competition; that is, women are more likely to opt out of jobs in which performance pay is the norm. Laboratory experiments … field, the authors use performance pay as an indicator of competition in the workplace and compare the gender gap not only … these competition hypotheses to explain the gender pay gap seems very limited …

first period. However, the male advantage is not found in any subsequent period of competition, or even after a two …-week break from competition. Some evidence suggests that males may actually perform worse than females in later periods. The … design of the competition and the task at hand. Even when the male advantage does exist, it does not persist beyond the …