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When there is no explicit statement that wages are negotiable, men are more likely to negotiate than women; men prefer job environments where the “rules of wage determination” are ambiguous

Topic: Income


Source

Citation: Do Women Avoid Salary Negotiations? Evidence from a Large Scale Natural Field Experiment

Author(s): Leibbrandt, List

Institution(s): National Bureau of Economic Research



Link: http://www.nber.org/papers/w18511





Nation(s): United States

Year(s): 2012

Source: Primary

Type: Behavioral Experiment


Discussion

Other Notes:

When the possibility that wages are negotiable is explicitly mentioned, this difference disappears, and even tends to reverse. | Consistent with the broader concept of women being more risk-averse than men

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