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Confidence and career choices : an experiment
Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - 2020 - 2nd revision June 2020
Confidence in one's own abilities is often seen as an important determinant of being successful. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's own abilities causally influence choices is, however, sparse. In this paper, we use a stylized laboratory experiment to investigate the causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238957
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Confidence and career choices : an experiment
Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - 2019
Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's abilities causally map into actions is, however, sparse. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the causal effect of an increase in confidence about one's own ability on two central...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064447
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Confidence and career choices : an experiment
Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - 2019 - Revised January 2019
Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about how such beliefs about one's abilities causally map into actions is, however, sparse. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the causal effect of an increase in confidence about one's own ability on two central...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011964220
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Confidence and career choices : an experiment
Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - 2018
Confidence is often seen as the key to success. Empirical evidence about whether such beliefs causally map into actions is, however, sparse. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the causal effect of an increase in confidence about one's own ability on two central choices made by workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011778918
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Re-migration behaviour and expected duration of stay of guest-workers in Germany
Steiner, Viktor; Velling, Johannes - 1992
We analyze guest-workers' expected duration of stay in Germany within an econometric model taking into account the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622817
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Lost female talent : gender differences in college aspirations and expectations in Germany
Erdmann, Melinda; Helbig, Marcel; Jacob, Marita - 2023
Our study focuses on the gender gap in college aspirations and enrolment among high school students in Germany. We … students in Germany, we find that women are equally interested in pursuing higher education as their male counterparts. They …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014323551
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Income support, (un-)employment and well-being
Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; Wolf, Tobias - 2016
analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011513025
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On the misery of losing self-employment
Hetschko, Clemens - 2014
-employment and the consequences of unemployment rather than from advantages of self-employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010414222
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Biased by success and failure : how unemployment shapes stated locus of control
Preuß, Malte; Hennecke, Juliane - 2017
changes is, nonetheless, strongly debated. We contribute to this discussion by analyzing the effect of unemployment on LOC … unemployment. Overall, we find a significant shift in stated LOC due to unemployment. Because the effect is observable during … unemployment only and not heterogeneous with respect to individual characteristics or unemployment duration, we conclude that only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011760721
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Are interest rates responsible for unemployment in the eighties? : A Bayesian analysis of cointegrated relationship with a regime shift
De la Croix, David; Lubrano, Michel - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000893219