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Kräkel, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

This paper discusses the strategic role of mismatching, where players voluntarily form inefficient teams or forego the … formation of efficient teams, respectively. Strategic mismatching can be rational when players realize a competitive advantage …

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Tournaments for the endogenous allocating of prizes within workteams - Theory and experimental evidence

Sutter, Matthias - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

-order tournament. Team members compete in their efforts for the right to propose the distribution of a prize within the team. The …

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A NLIP Model on Wage Dispersion and Team Performance

Papahristodoulou, Christos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

players improve the performance of four teams which participate in a tournament, such as in the UEFA Champions League (UCL … improve the performance of all teams, irrespectively if the elasticity of substitution between Super- and Normal- players is … high or low. In addition to that, a U-type performance exists in two teams with the highest and the second high elasticity …

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Strategic mismatches in competing teams

Kräkel, Matthias - 1999

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Gender Quotas, Competitions, and Peer Review: Experimental Evidence on the Backlash Against Women

Leibbrandt, Andreas; Wang, Liang Choon; Foo, Cordelia - 2015

This study experimentally investigates gender quotas in light of peer review. We investigate competitions with and without gender quotas and a peer review process that allows for sabotage. Our findings show that the possibility of peer sabotage renders the gender quota ineffective in encouraging...

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Gender differences and dynamics in competition: The role of luck

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - In: Quantitative Economics 5 (2014) 2, pp. 351-376

In a real effort experiment with repeated competition we find striking differences in how the work effort of men and women responds to previous wins and losses. For women, losing per se is detrimental to productivity, but for men, a loss impacts negatively on productivity only when the prize at...

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Gender differences and dynamics in competition: The role of luck

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2010

We present experimental evidence which sheds new light on why women may be less competitive than men. Specifically, we observe striking differences in how men and women respond to good and bad luck in a competitive environment. Following a loss, women tend to reduce effort, and the effect is...

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Competition and Career Advancement:The Hidden Costs of Paid Leave

Johnsen, Julian; Ku, Hyejin; Salvanes, Kjell G - 2020

Does leave-taking matter for young workers' careers? If so, why? We propose the competition effect - relative leave status of workers affecting their relative standing inside the firm - as a new explanation. Exploiting a policy reform that exogenously assigned four-week paid paternity leave to...

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Competition and Career Advancement: The Hidden Costs of Paid Leave

Johnsen, Julian V.; Ku, Hyejin; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2020

Does leave-taking matter for young workers' careers? If so, why? We propose the competition effect—relative leave status of workers affecting their relative standing inside the firm—as a new explanation. Exploiting a policy reform that exogenously assigned four-week paid paternity leave to...

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Overconfidence and Gender Equality in the Labor Market

Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2023

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, combined with competitive job incentives, affects...

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