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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w18576 |
来源ID | Working Paper 18576 |
Gender, Competitiveness and Career Choices | |
Thomas Buser; Muriel Niederle; Hessel Oosterbeek | |
发表日期 | 2012-11-29 |
出版年 | 2012 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Gender differences in competitiveness are often discussed as a potential explanation for gender differences in education and labor market outcomes. We correlate an incentivized measure of competitiveness with an important career choice of secondary school students in the Netherlands. At the age of 15, these students have to pick one out of four study profiles, which vary in how prestigious they are. While boys and girls have very similar levels of academic ability, boys are substantially more likely than girls to choose more prestigious profiles. We find that competitiveness is as important a predictor of profile choice as gender. More importantly, up to 23 percent of the gender difference in profile choice can be attributed to gender differences in competitiveness. This lends support to the extrapolation of laboratory findings on competitiveness to labor market settings. |
主题 | Econometrics ; Experimental Design ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Supply and Demand |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w18576 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576251 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Thomas Buser,Muriel Niederle,Hessel Oosterbeek. Gender, Competitiveness and Career Choices. 2012. |
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