Approaches to Measuring Employees’ Competitiveness: Part 1. How Behavioral Labor Economics Methods Can Develop the Field?

Abstract

Employees’ competitiveness is an ambiguous and complex concept that affects the interaction of three agents of the labor market: workers, companies and the state. The competitiveness indicators are not published by official statistics; therefore, they suggest an author's approach in research. We believe that study methods of employees’ competitiveness can be developed by the methods of various sciences. We assume using of behavioral economics methods that suggests an interdisciplinary approach. Behavioral economics is a new field of science that arose 30–40 years ago and includes tools not only from economics, but also from other sciences such as social and neuroscience. This area of science, as well as its tools, still causes a lot of discussion in the scientific world and remains not fully disclosed or understood. The author aims to identify the possibilities and limitations of the methodology of behavioral economics in relation to studies of the employees’ competitiveness measuring approaches.