首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
A truly informed diner would choose a restaurant based on the quality of the menu and the chef’s experience. The discerning inve
A truly informed diner would choose a restaurant based on the quality of the menu and the chef’s experience. The discerning inve
admin
2017-02-24
38
问题
A truly informed diner would choose a restaurant based on the quality of the menu and the chef’s experience. The discerning investor would decide which company to back after studying the business plan and meeting the founders. In reality, people often copy the choices of others. Diners pick the crowded restaurant over the empty one. Investors go with the company that already has multiple backers. Such bandwagon effects are not necessarily irrational. Often, the buyer knows less about a product than the seller: the collective wisdom of the crowd can correct for such "
asymmetric information
".
Scholars are now asking whether herd behavior also prevails in labor markets. To find out, Kory Kroft of the University of Toronto devised an experiment in which they applied for 3,000 clerical, administrative, sales and customer-service jobs advertised online by submitting 12, 000 fictitious CVs. The submissions were designed so that applicants with similar backgrounds, education and experience went for the same job. The only difference was how long the applicant had been jobless, a period that ranged from no time at all to as much as 36 months.
They found that the odds of an applicant being called back by an employer declined steadily as the duration of unemployment rose, from 7.4% after one month without work down to 4%-5% at the eight-month mark, where the call-back rate stabilized.
These results, the authors say, cannot be because employers found some qualitative flaw in the longer-term unemployed that was hidden from outsiders, since the applicants were similar in other respects. Another explanation for long-term unemployment—that people make less effort to find work as their time out of the labor force lengthens—is also not applicable here.
A third possibility is that employers equate lengthening unemployment with atrophying skills and thus falling productivity. But this should be true whether the economy is booming or in recession. The decline in call-back rates was much more pronounced in cities with tight labour markets: call-back rates changed relatively little when higher unemployment prevailed locally. From this, the authors infer that employers are more likely to overlook a long period of unemployment if overall economic conditions are stacked against candidates.
These results strongly suggest that long-term unemployment is at least partly self-fulfilling. Like patrons who avoid restaurants purely because they are empty, employers were reluctant to hire someone other employers didn’ t want.
Kory Kroft of the University of Toronto devised an experiment to_____.
选项
A、figure out whether bandwagon behavior is also popular in labor markets
B、test the difference of applicants with similar backgrounds, education and experience
C、test the fictitious CVs for 3,000 clerical, administrative, sales and customer-service jobs
D、figure out how the bandwagon behavior affect the choice of employee
答案
A
解析
细节题。根据题干关键词定位到第二段。由本段第一、二旬可知实验的目的是to find out whether herd behavior also prevails in labor markets。因此,正确答案是A,figure out,bandwagon behavior,popular分别是对原文find out,herd behavior,prevail的同义复现。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/NBU7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
Researchonanimalintelligencealwaysmakesuswonderjusthowsmarthumansare.Considerthefruit-flyexperimentsdescribedb
Teachersneedtobeawareoftheemotional,intellectual,andphysicalchangesthatyoungadultsexperience.Andtheyalsoneed
A、GrowingnumberofpeoplemakingcallsovertheInternet.B、Increasingcostduetolackoftechnologyprogress.C、Customers’ap
Itisimpossibletodescribeinsomnia(失眠)topeoplewhoaresoundsleepers.Thesearethepeoplewhotrustthatgettinginbedwi
Itisimpossibletodescribeinsomnia(失眠)topeoplewhoaresoundsleepers.Thesearethepeoplewhotrustthatgettinginbedwi
Whywedreamstillremainsoneofthegreatmysteries.Butinanswertothequestionofhowwedream,scientificresearchershav
A、Whichcountryshouldbeallowedtohavenuclearweapons.B、Thetimefortheirnextcoffeeappointment.C、Whetheritismeaning
Oneofthemostcommonimagesofanadvanced,Western-stylecultureisthatofabusy,traffic-filledcity.Sincetheirfirst【B1
OnSaturday,BexarCountyDigitalLibrary—a$2.4million,4,000-square-footspacelocatedonthesouthsideofSanAntonio—opens
OnSaturday,BexarCountyDigitalLibrary—a$2.4million,4,000-square-footspacelocatedonthesouthsideofSanAntonio—opens
随机试题
Ihaven’tseenhimforquitealongtime,buthisparents______himsometimes.
支气管哮喘发作时不出现
建筑工程在施工过程中,如()发生变更时,应当重新申请领取施工许可证。
学习的最佳期限是指()。
【2015上】国家机关工作人员陈某因参与小学语文教科书的编写工作被当地人民政府给予行政记过处分,并处没收全部违法所得。当地人民政府做出这一处分的法律依据是()。
为什么说幼儿的教育离不开家庭?
2012年9月6日,吴某到厂长办公室要求分房。厂长刘某以要开会为由令吴某离开。吴某不从,刘某遂不耐烦,向外推吴某。吴某在后退中不慎将办公桌撞倒,打破茶杯。刘某见状大怒,向公安机关报警。公安干警赶到后,不容吴某分辩将其带到北桥派出所。第二天,某市A区公安分局
某次测验有50酋判断题,每答对一道得3分,不答或答错一道倒扣1分。某学生共得了82分,则该学生答对
有以下程序:main(){inti,j;for(j=10;j<11;j++){for(i=9;i<j;i++)if(!(j%i))break;if(i==j-1)
科学技术的进步使人类活到超过100岁的可能性越来越大。(increasingly)
最新回复
(
0
)