Person
Dr. rer. pol.Adam Ayaita
Chair of HRM and Personnel Economics
Address
Building: 1050
Room: 635
Templergraben 64
52062 Aachen
Germany
Office Hours
- by arrangement
Short biography
| Since 2019 |
Postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Human Resource Management and Personnel Economics at RWTH Aachen University; |
| 2015 - 2018 |
Doctoral studies in management and economics at the LEAD Graduate School & Research Network, University of Tübingen |
| 2013 - 2015 | Studies of managerial economics at the University of Tübingen Master of Science |
| 2010 - 2013 | Dual studies of business informatics at the School of Economics and Law Berlin Bachelor of Science |
| 2009 - 2010 | Studies of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA) |
| 2007 - 2009 | Studies of philosophy at the University of Tübingen and the University of Konstanz |
| 2006 - 2007 | Studium generale at the Leibniz Kolleg Tübingen |
Research interests
Human resource management, labor and behavioral economics
| Primary | Labor market discrimination, stereotypes, and biased beliefs |
| Secondary | Education economics Personality Minimum wages Public sector employment |
Presentations
| 2022 | European Academy of Management (EURAM) Annual Conference, Winterthur Anniversary Meeting of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB), Düsseldorf (online) Lecture series #MensaGoesScience by Mensa in Deutschland e.V. (online) |
| 2021 | European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) Conference, Padua (online); Colloquium on Economics of the Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union (IAAEU), Trier (online); European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference, Montreal (online) |
| 2020 | International NEPS Conference of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Bamberg (online); 23rd Colloquium on Personnel Economics, London (conference cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic) |
| 2019 |
22nd Colloquium on Personnel Economics, Augsburg; |
| 2018 |
Workshop on educational inequalities: psychological and sociological processes, Tübingen; |
| 2017 |
Research Seminar in Economics and Management (SEAM), Paderborn; |
| 2016 | Annual Meeting of the Committee on Education Economics (Bildungsökonomischer Ausschuss) in the German Economic Association (VfS), Bamberg |
| 2015 |
18th Colloquium on Personnel Economics, Vienna; |
Selected Publications
- Ayaita, Adam; Klesczewski, Diethelm (2022): Der Zusammenhang zwischen Marktlöhnen und Produktivität und die Beschäftigungseffekte von Mindestlöhnen. Eine theoretische Betrachtung zur Erklärung empirischer Ergebnisse. WiSt – Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium 51(5): 30-36.
- Ayaita, Adam; Grund, Christian; Pütz, Lisa (2022): Job Placement via Private vs. Public Employment Agencies: Investigating Selection Effects and Job Match Quality in Germany. Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research.
- Ayaita, Adam; Pull, Kerstin (2022): Positional Preferences and Narcissism: Evidence from "Money Burning" Dictator Games. Applied Economics Letters 29(3): 267-271.
- Savage, Corey; Ayaita, Adam; Hübner, Nicolas; Biewen, Martin (2021): Who Chooses Teacher Education and Why? Evidence From Germany. Educational Researcher 50(7): 483-487.
- Gülal, Filiz; Ayaita, Adam (2020): The Impact of Minimum Wages on Well-Being: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Germany. Journal of Happiness Studies 21:2669-2692.
- Ayaita, Adam; Stürmer, Kathleen (2020): Risk Aversion and the Teaching Profession: An Analysis Including Different Forms of Risk Aversion, Different Control Groups, Selection and Socialization Effects. Education Economics 28(1): 4-25.
- Ayaita, Adam; Gülal, Filiz; Yang, Philip (2019): Where Does the Good Shepherd Go? Civic Virtue and Sorting into Public Sector Employment. German Economic Review 20(4): e571–e599.
- Ayaita, Adam; Pull, Kerstin; Backes-Gellner, Uschi (2019): You Get What You 'Pay' for: Academic Attention, Career Incentives and Changes in Publication Portfolios of Business and Economics Researchers. Journal of Business Economics 89(3): 273–290.
Working Paper
- Does money change who you are? Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of wage increases on personality
- Ethnic minority background and personality characteristics: Evidence from a representative sample of the adult population
- Field of study and earnings: The role of (self-)selection by individual characteristics (with Marion Spengler, Benjamin Nagengast, and Ulrich Trautwein)
- The role of personality for gender gaps in political interest and activity
Work in progress
- Why discrimination based on stereotypes often reduces firms' expected profit
- Ethnic disparities in labor market outcomes: Evidence from Germany
- The statistical (in-)accuracy of ethnic stereotypes about personality traits, attitudes, and values
| Source | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| [Journal Article] Job Placement via Private vs. Public Employment Agencies : Investigating Selection Effects and Job Match Quality in Germany In: Schmalenbachs Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung, 74 (January), 26, 2022 [DOI: 10.1007/s41471-021-00129-1] | Ayaita, Adam Grund, Christian Pütz, Lisa (Corresponding author) |
| [Journal Article] Positional preferences and narcissism : evidence from 'money burning' dictator games In: Applied economics letters, 29 (3), 267-271, 2020 [DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2020.1863320] | Ayaita, Adam (Corresponding author) Pull, Kerstin |
| [Journal Article] Who Chooses Teacher Education and Why? Evidence From Germany In: Educational researcher : ER, 50 (7), 483-487, 2021 [DOI: 10.3102/0013189X211000758] | Savage, Corey (Corresponding author) Ayaita, Adam Hübner, Nicolas Biewen, Martin |
| [Journal Article] The Impact of Minimum Wages on Well-Being : Evidence from a Quasi-experiment in Germany In: Journal of happiness studies, 21 (7), 2669-2692, 2019 [DOI: 10.1007/s10902-019-00189-5] | Gülal, Filiz (Corresponding author) Ayaita, Adam |
| [Journal Article] Risk aversion and the teaching profession : an analysis including different forms of risk aversion, different control groups, selection and socialization effects In: Education economics, 28 (1), 4-25, 2019 [DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2019.1675592] | Ayaita, Adam (Corresponding author) Stürmer, Kathleen |