Gender and Competition

Booth, Alison

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Gender and Competition

Date

2009

Authors

Booth, Alison

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wage distribution. In this 2008 presidential lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different