Is Being Competitive Always an Advantage? Degrees of Competitiveness, Gender, and Premature Work Contract Termination

Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. (August 2021). Is Being Competitive Always an Advantage? Degrees of Competitiveness, Gender, and Premature Work Contract Termination (Discussion paper series 14675). Bonn, Germany: Institute of Labor Economics

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In this study, we examine the influence of competitiveness on the stability of labour relations using the example of premature employment and training contract termination in the apprenticeship education sector. The paper extends the small but 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 matching a large experimental dataset with administrative data identifying contract terminations, we find that both gender and test specification matter. While competitive men assigned to a difficult competitiveness task are less likely to drop out of the contract than non competitive men, there is no such effect observable for those assigned to the easier task. On the other hand, competitive women are more likely to drop out than non competitive women, irrespective of how competitiveness is measured.

Item Type:

Working Paper

Division/Institute:

03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Department of Economics

UniBE Contributor:

Lüthi, Samuel Tobias, Wolter, Stefan Cornelis

Subjects:

300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 330 Economics

ISSN:

2365-9793

Series:

Discussion paper series

Publisher:

Institute of Labor Economics

Language:

English

Submitter:

Dino Collalti

Date Deposited:

07 Feb 2022 10:18

Last Modified:

31 Oct 2023 08:27

JEL Classification:

C9, J16, J24

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/162615

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/162615

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