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Working for Position: Women, Men, and Managerial Work Hours
Author(s) -
Eastman Wayne
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/0019-8676.711998034
Subject(s) - dilemma , incentive , position (finance) , work (physics) , competition (biology) , working hours , labour economics , work hours , demographic economics , psychology , social psychology , economics , microeconomics , finance , engineering , mechanical engineering , ecology , philosophy , epistemology , biology
Job hours may be determined in part by positional striving to keep up with or outwork others in one's organization. A prisoner's dilemma in which employees have an incentive to work more than a socially optimal level of hours may arise from positional competition. This article uses survey data to estimate how much positional striving increases job hours, and considers how it may contribute to workplaces more in accord with men's than women's hours preferences.