Gender, Social Networks And Performance

Ilse Lindenlaub and Anja Prummer

Cambridge Working Papers in Economics from Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

Abstract: This paper documents gender differences in social ties and develops a theory that links them to disparities in men’s and women’s labor market performance. Men’s networks lead to better access to information, women’s to higher peer pressure. Both affect effort in a model of teams, each beneficial in different environments. We find that information is particularly valuable under high uncertainty, whereas peer pressure is more valuable in the opposite case. We therefore expect men to outperform women in jobs that are characterized by high earnings uncertainty, such as the financial sector or film industry – in line with the evidence rationale.

Keywords: Networks; Peer Pressure; Gender; Labor Market Outcomes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D85 J16 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-07-13
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hme, nep-net, nep-soc and nep-ure
Note: ap809
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