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Do men matter to female competition even when they don't?
Birk, Erica G.; Lee, Logan M.; Waddell, Glen R. - 2016
men without the element of direct competition, which allows for the identification of psychological effects of competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531865
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Is being competitive always an advantage? : degrees of competitiveness, gender, and premature work contract termination
Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2021
In this study, we examine the influence of competitiveness on the stability of labour relations using the example of … growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … competitiveness and labour market success and whether these effects depend on how the students' propensity to compete is measured. By …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607417
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Is being competitive always an advantage? : degrees of competitiveness, gender, and premature work contract termination
Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2021
In this study, we examine the influence of competitiveness on the stability of labour relations using the example of … growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … competitiveness and labour market success and whether these effects depend on how the students' propensity to compete is measured. By …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607783
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The impact of losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges
Buser, Thomas - 2014
of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010383874
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The impact of losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges
Buser, Thomas - 2014
of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment … compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of their score and the outcome of the competition. Conditional on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010373763
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The competitive saving motive : concept, evidence, and implications
Wei, Shang-jin; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2015
This short essay surveys recent literature on the competitive saving motive and its broader economic implications. The competitive saving motive is defined as saving to improve one's status relative to other competitors for dating and marriage partners. Here are some of the key results of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388451
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The impact of losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges
Buser, Thomas - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 62 (2016) 12, pp. 3439-3449
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011626358
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The competitive earning incentive for sons : evidence from migration in China
Li, Wenchao; Yi, Junjian - 2015
This paper first finds a clear pattern of child gender difference in family migration in China. Specifically, our estimates show that on average, the first child being a son increases the father's migration probability by 25.2 percent. We hypothesize that the family's competitive earning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307893
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Women and motivation to compete : the role of advantages
Braut, Beatrice - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013167987
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Is being competitive always an advantage? : degrees of competitiveness, gender, and premature work contract termination
Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012610692