Courtesy and Idleness: Gender Differences in Team Work and Team Competition

Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel and Dorothea Kübler

Discussion Paper Series of SFB/TR 15 Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems from Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Bonn, University of Mannheim, University of Munich

Abstract: Does gender play a role in the context of team work? Our results based on a real-effort experiment suggest that performance depends on the composition of the team. We find that female and male performance differ most in mixed teams with revenue sharing between the team members, as men put in significantly more effort than women. The data also indicate that women perform best when competing in pure female teams against male teams whereas men perform best when women are present or in a competitive environment.

Keywords: team incentives; gender; tournaments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C73 C91 D82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-lab and nep-soc
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