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Essays in Labor Economics Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Boston University, 2021 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Gender Differences; Performance pay; Work Hours/Schedule Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The third chapter uses the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to show that women are less likely to be in performance-pay jobs and experience a smaller earnings increase from participating in such jobs. I compare these findings with theoretical predictions of differing tastes for competition or biased subjective evaluation but find limited support that either factor explains most of the gender difference in performance pay. However, bonus-awarding jobs also demonstrate a higher elasticity of earnings with respect to weekly hours than other jobs do, and thus some of the wider wage gap is explained by gender differences in time at work. |
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Weber, Emily Anna. Essays in Labor Economics. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Boston University, 2021. |