Journal Article

Spinning the top: gender, competition, and the long-run optimum


Abstract: Although existing organizational and cultural practices have the benefit of creating incentives to increase output, they may also create perverse incentives that have negative economic effects outside the relatively easily measured world of market outcomes.

Keywords: Sex discrimination against women; Labor productivity; Women - Employment; Discrimination in employment;

Status: Published in Reaching the top: challenges and opportunities for women leaders

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Part of Series: Regional Review

Publication Date: 2005

Issue: Q 1

Pages: 49-55