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| Title: | | Gender and competition  |
| Authors: | | Booth, Alison L. |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 4300 |
| Abstract: | | In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different returns and focus especially on those incorporating pyschological factors as an explanation of the gender gap. Research areas with high potential returns to further analysis are identified. Several examples from my own recent experimental work with Patrick Nolen are also presented. These try to distinguish between the role of nature and nurture in affecting behavioural differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps. |
| Subjects: | | Glass ceiling experimental economics personality differences |
| JEL: | | C9 J16 J71 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-2009082588 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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