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Gender differences in multi-employee gift exchange with self-reported contributions
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 9, p e0238236 (2020), PLoS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Gender-wage gaps are an important phenomenon on labor markets. They can possibly be caused by the institutional framework. This question is addressed in this paper. When only joint output can be observed in team production, individuals may submit self-reports of their contribution to a principal. In a multi-employee gift exchange experiment, we study how men and women behave differently with and without such self-reports. We cannot reject that self-reports left the overall efficiency of the gift exchange interaction unchanged, but detect notable gender differences. Women reported similar effort levels as men, but contributed significantly less. The difference in contributions led to a significant gender gap in wages, depending on gender group composition. These effects were only present when participants did not know each other’s gender, however. When instead gender was observable, the behavior of men and women converged. The results suggest that parts of wage gaps may be related to different behavior within incomplete contract and imperfect information environments, depending on details of the informational context. Open-Access-Publikationsfonds 2020 peerReviewed
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Employment
Experimental Economics
Economics
Gender Discrimination
Science
Social Sciences
Sexual and Gender Issues
Sex Factors
Sociology
Game Theory
Salaries
ddc:330
Humans
Occupations
Payment
health care economics and organizations
Salaries and Fringe Benefits
Applied Mathematics
Commerce
Labor Markets
Social Discrimination
Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Labor Economics
Physical Sciences
Medicine
Female
Self Report
WAGE GAP
PERFORMANCE
COMPETITION
BIAS
FAIR
LAB
Mathematics
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 9, p e0238236 (2020), PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.pmid.dedup....f6bb68c0aad680ca836702ed9298d523