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The Stability of Big-Five Personality Traits

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Schurer, Stefanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We use a large, nationally-representative sample of working-age adults to demonstrate that personality (as measured by the Big Five) is stable over a four-year period. Average personality changes are small and do not vary substantially across age groups. Intra-individual personality change is...

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Two Economists’ Musings on the Stability of Locus of Control

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Schurer, Stefanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Empirical studies of the role of non-cognitive skills in driving economic behavior often rely heavily on the assumption that these skills are stable over the relevant time frame. We analyze the change in a specific non-cognitive skill, i.e. locus of control, in order to directly assess the...

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Canonical Correlation and Assortative Matching: A Remark

Dupuy, Arnaud; Galichon, Alfred - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In the context of the Beckerian theory of marriage, when men and women match on a single-dimensional index that is the weighted sum of their respective multivariate attributes, many papers in the literature have used linear canonical correlation, and related techniques, in order to estimate...

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Trends in Earnings Inequality and Earnings Instability among U.S. Couples: How Important Is Assortative Matching?

Hryshko, Dmytro; Juhn, Chinhui; McCue, Kristin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We examine changes in inequality and instability of the combined earnings of married couples over the 1980-2009 period using two U.S. panel data sets: Social Security earnings data matched to Survey of Income and Program Participation panels (SIPP-SSA) and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics....

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The Effect of Firms' Partial Retirement Policies on the Labour Market Outcomes of Their Employees

Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In this paper, we assess the impact of firms introducing part-time work schemes for gradual labour market exit of elderly workers on their employees' labour market outcomes. The analysis is based on unique linked employer-employee data that combine high-quality survey and administrative data....

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An Equilibrium Search Model of the Labor Market Entry of Second-Generation Immigrants and Ethnic Danes

Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Kromann, Lene - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

incorporating matching as a way to ensure sub-sample homogeneity. Thus, we match second-generation immigrants to their ethnic Danish … twins on the basis of parental characteristics and informal network quality. There are big differences before matching, but … after matching, second-generation immigrants perform as well or better than their ethnic Dane counterparts do on the labor …

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Workplace Health Promotion and Labour Market Performance of Employees

Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

regions, we apply a flexible propensity score matching approach that controls for selection on observables as well as on time …

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Why is Old Workers' Labor Market More Volatile? Unemployment Fluctuations over the Life-Cycle

Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Sopraseuth, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Since the last recession, it is usually argued that older workers are less affected by the economic downturn because their unemployment rate rose less than the one of prime-age workers. This view is a myth: older workers are more sensitive to the business cycle. We document volatilities of...

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Indicative and Updated Estimates of the Collective Bargaining Premium in Germany

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This study provides updated evidence on the union contract differential in Germany using establishment-wide wage data and two estimation strategies. It provides pairwise estimates of the union differential based on separate samples of collective bargaining leavers and joiners vis-à-vis the...

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Unobservable, but Unimportant? The Influence of Personality Traits (and Other Usually Unobserved Variables) for the Evaluation of Labor Market Policies

Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Many commonly used treatment effects estimators rely on the unconfoundedness assumption ("selection on observables") which is fundamentally non-testable. When evaluating the effects of labor market policies, researchers need to observe variables that affect both treatment participation and labor...

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