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Confidence and career choices : an experiment
Barron, Kai; Gravert, Christina - 2020 - 2nd revision June 2020
workers in the labor market: (i) choosing between jobs with a payment scheme that depends heavily on ability [high earnings … risk] and those that pay a fixed wage [low earnings risk], and (ii) the subsequent choice of how much effort to exert …
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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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Personality traits and cognitive ability in political selection
Jokela, Markus; Meriläinen, Jaakko; Tukiainen, Janne; … - 2023 - February 2023 (first version July 2022, second version August 2022)
office-eligible population in both intelligence and personality tests that capture three dimensions of cognitive and seven …We present the first comprehensive evidence on the role of cognitive ability and personality traits in the selection of … also assess the relative importance of cognitive abilities and personality traits, present evidence of no trade …
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All-star or benchwarmer? : relative age, cohort size and career success in the NHL
Bryson, Alex; Gómez, Rafael; Tingting, Zhang - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010504071
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The careers of immigrants
De Matos, Ana Dama - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009671397
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Erste Befunde aus dem Projekt "MATH+ as a Research Object": Karriereziele, -wissen und -handeln, Nachwuchsförderung und Rekrutierung
Hofmeister, Sophie; Lindenau, Johannes; Mischau, Anina; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649523
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Different counselors, many options : career guidance and career plans in secondary schools
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Hillerich-Sigg, Annette; … - 2019
Career guidance assists students with the school-to-work transition. Based on a survey in secondary schools in Germany, we analyze career guidance activities and how these affect career plans. The take-up of career guidance depends upon the school track attended and upon the school and class...
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Additional career assistance and educational outcomes for students in lower track secondary schools
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie - 2017
Based on local policy variation, this paper estimates the causal effect of additional career assistance on educational outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705487
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Gender, careers and peers' gender mix
Tafti, Elena Ashtari; Distefano, Mimosa; Surovtseva, Tetyana - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014550893
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Career paths in online labor markets : same, same but different?
Seifried, Mareike; Jurowetzki, Roman; Kretschmer, Tobias - 2020
The emergence of online labor markets calls the validity of traditional career models into question. Given the volatility and digital nature of this environment, short-term employment relationships and heterogeneity of workers, employers and tasks in these markets, it is unclear how careers...
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