Competitiveness and Employability

IF 1.6 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2024-04-02 DOI:10.1016/j.socec.2024.102209

Elif E. Demiral , Johanna Mollerstrom

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Abstract

We investigate the impact on employability when job candidates signal different personal tastes for competitions. In three experiments, with close to 3,000 participants in total, we show that non-competitive candidates risk being perceived as less productive, while those who signal a willingness to compete with others may be perceived as less socially skilled. However, displaying a willingness to self-compete, i.e. to challenge oneself to improve over time, seems to increase the likelihood of being perceived as both productive and socially skilled, for both female and male job candidates.

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竞争力和就业能力

我们研究了求职者对竞争的不同个人喜好对就业能力的影响。在总共近 3000 名参与者参与的三项实验中，我们发现，不善于竞争的求职者有可能被认为工作效率较低，而那些表示愿意与他人竞争的求职者则可能被认为社交能力较差。然而，对于女性和男性求职者来说，表现出自我竞争的意愿，即挑战自我，不断进步，似乎会增加被认为具有生产力和社交技能的可能性。

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来源期刊

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

2.60

自引率

12.50%

发文量

113

审稿时长

83 days

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