Worker overconfidence: Field evidence and implications for employee turnover and firm profits

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العنوان: Worker overconfidence: Field evidence and implications for employee turnover and firm profits
المؤلفون: Mitchell Hoffman, Stephen V. Burks
المصدر: Quantitative Economics. 11:315-348
بيانات النشر: The Econometric Society, 2020.
سنة النشر: 2020
مصطلحات موضوعية: Economics and Econometrics, 050208 finance, Overconfidence, media_common.quotation_subject, Field (Bourdieu), M53, 05 social sciences, J24, turnover, Key features, Large sample, Turnover, 0502 economics and business, ddc:330, Economics, Structural learning, Demographic economics, D03, J41, biased learning, 050207 economics, Welfare, Productivity, Overconfidence effect, media_common
الوصف: Combining weekly productivity data with weekly productivity beliefs for a large sample of truckers over 2 years, we show that workers tend to systematically and persistently overpredict their productivity. If workers are overconfident about their own productivity at the current firm relative to their outside option, they should be less likely to quit. Empirically, all else equal, having higher productivity beliefs is associated with an employee being less likely to quit. To study the implications of overconfidence for worker welfare and firm profits, we estimate a structural learning model with biased beliefs that accounts for many key features of the data. While worker overconfidence moderately decreases worker welfare, it also substantially increases firm profits. Overconfidence biased learning turnover D03 J24 J41 M53
تدمد: 1759-7323
DOI: 10.3982/qe834
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::343956462ec215072799d52ab3d827d8
https://doi.org/10.3982/qe834
Rights: OPEN
رقم الانضمام: edsair.doi.dedup.....343956462ec215072799d52ab3d827d8
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE
الوصف
تدمد:17597323
DOI:10.3982/qe834