Are Women Really Less Competitive Than Men? Career Duration in Nordic and Alpine Skiing

Do women shy away from competition while men compete too much? The available, mostly experimental evidence generally supports these assumptions. However, in contrast to laboratory settings, labor markets do not have random assignment of workers. Instead, individuals—professional athletes and corpora...

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Main Authors: Bernd Frick, Katharina Moser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Sociology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2020.539766/full
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spelling doaj-892f447bac8240a68a36b76543e3bba02021-01-20T04:26:50ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Sociology2297-77752021-01-01510.3389/fsoc.2020.539766539766Are Women Really Less Competitive Than Men? Career Duration in Nordic and Alpine SkiingBernd Frick0Katharina Moser1Management Department, Paderborn University, Paderborn, GermanySchool of Business and Economics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, GermanyDo women shy away from competition while men compete too much? The available, mostly experimental evidence generally supports these assumptions. However, in contrast to laboratory settings, labor markets do not have random assignment of workers. Instead, individuals—professional athletes and corporate executives—self-select into specific occupations. Using data from Alpine and Nordic skiing over 52 and 37 years respectively, we show that career length of men and women is virtually identical. Thus, when adequately controlling for self-selection into a highly competitive environment, differences between men and women with respect to competitiveness completely disappear.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2020.539766/fullski world cupcareer durationgender differencesrisk preferencesself-selectioncompetitiveness
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Are Women Really Less Competitive Than Men? Career Duration in Nordic and Alpine Skiing
Frontiers in Sociology
ski world cup
career duration
gender differences
risk preferences
self-selection
competitiveness
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Katharina Moser
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title Are Women Really Less Competitive Than Men? Career Duration in Nordic and Alpine Skiing
title_short Are Women Really Less Competitive Than Men? Career Duration in Nordic and Alpine Skiing
title_full Are Women Really Less Competitive Than Men? Career Duration in Nordic and Alpine Skiing
title_fullStr Are Women Really Less Competitive Than Men? Career Duration in Nordic and Alpine Skiing
title_full_unstemmed Are Women Really Less Competitive Than Men? Career Duration in Nordic and Alpine Skiing
title_sort are women really less competitive than men? career duration in nordic and alpine skiing
publisher Frontiers Media S.A.
series Frontiers in Sociology
issn 2297-7775
publishDate 2021-01-01
description Do women shy away from competition while men compete too much? The available, mostly experimental evidence generally supports these assumptions. However, in contrast to laboratory settings, labor markets do not have random assignment of workers. Instead, individuals—professional athletes and corporate executives—self-select into specific occupations. Using data from Alpine and Nordic skiing over 52 and 37 years respectively, we show that career length of men and women is virtually identical. Thus, when adequately controlling for self-selection into a highly competitive environment, differences between men and women with respect to competitiveness completely disappear.
topic ski world cup
career duration
gender differences
risk preferences
self-selection
competitiveness
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