The Role of Gender and Relative Skills in Task Juggling

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2018-01-01

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Büyükboyacı Hanay, Mürüvvet İlknur

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In this article, we examine individuals’ multitasking behaviors and how multitasking affects their performance when they are faced with two different tasks and the tasks are complementary, i.e., multitasking is compulsory. First, we find that when individuals are switching between tasks in such an environment, the process of switching is affected by their gender as well as their relative skill in the tasks. In particular, whereas the frequency with which men and women switch between tasks is relatively similar when their skill levels are disparate, men tend to switch more frequently than women when their skill levels are relatively more balanced. Second, we find that while switching does not impact men’s performance, it has a slightly negative impact on women’s performance

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Lab experiment, Gender, Multitasking, Weakest-Link technology, Productivity, Task juggling

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/41058

Journal

Bogazici Journal

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https://doi.org/10.21773/boun.32.1.2

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Department of Economics, Article

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M. İ. Büyükboyacı Hanay, “The Role of Gender and Relative Skills in Task Juggling,” Bogazici Journal, pp. 0–0, 2018, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/41058.