Multitasking: Productivity Effects and Gender Differences
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Keywords
multitasking; productivity; gender; lab experiment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2011-03-26 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2011-03-26 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2011-03-26 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
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