Gender differences in team work and team competition

Radosveta Ivanova-Stenzel and Dorothea Kübler

Journal of Economic Psychology, 2011, vol. 32, issue 5, 797-808

Abstract: We study whether the gender performance gap is affected by the gender composition of teams. A real-effort experiment is employed with wages based either on the team’s performance, or on the outcome of a competition between teams. We find that, relative to a single-sex environment, gender diversity increases the gender performance gap with team pay whereas it decreases the gap with team competition. The results show that there can be a tension between the objective to maximize overall performance and to minimize gender inequality.

Keywords: Team incentives; Gender diversity; Tournaments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C73 C91 D82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2011.05.011

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