Unemployment and personality : are conscientiousness and agreeableness related to employability?

Carina Engelhardt

This paper shows that unemployment and (some) personality traits are related. Individuals with low scores in the Big Five dimensions conscientiousness and agreeableness have a higher probability of being unemployed, longer unemployment durations, and experience more status changes between employment and unemployment. Results suggests that personality is an important determinant of women’s risk of unemployment, but for men personality is more a matter of job keeping.

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Year of publication:	2017
Authors:	Engelhardt, Carina
Publisher:	[Hannover] : Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät der Leibniz Universität Hannover
Subject:	Noncognitive skills \| Personality \| Unemployment \| Factor models \| Arbeitslosigkeit \| Persönlichkeitspsychologie \| Personality psychology \| Qualifikation \| Occupational qualification \| Persönlichkeitsmerkmal \| Personality trait \| Schätzung \| Estimation \| Deutschland \| Germany

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 25 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	Diskussionspapiere der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Hannover : Hannover economic papers (HEP). - Hannover : Wirtschaftswiss. Fak., Univ., ZDB-ID 2120102-X. - Vol. no. 621 (December 2017)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/200633 [Handle]
Classification:	H53 - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs ; D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; J64 - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; c38
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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