– personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in school, and in many other domains …

ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …

questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2 …) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math ability, language ability) and social ability affect earnings of … entrepreneurs and employees differently?, and (3) Does the balance in these measured ability levels affect an individual's earnings …

While large literatures have shown that cognitive ability and schooling increases employment and wages, an emerging … important role in producing both personality and other non-cognitive skills and labor market outcomes is family background …, including genetic endowments. This paper is the first to use sibling differences to estimate the effects of personality on …

applicants' intellectual ability, personality, and motivation. This allows the first experimental estimates of (i) the role of … fill vacancies, as well as the role of wages in helping fill positions in less attractive municipalities. A theoretical … model guides each stage of the empirical inquiry. We find that higher wages attract more able applicants as measured by …

, personality measures are just as predictive as cognitive measures, even after controlling for family background and cognition …. Moreover, standard measures of cognition are heavily influenced by personality traits and incentives. Measured personality … compared to cognition, which becomes highly rank stable around age 10. Interventions that change personality are promising …

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the … human capital, for immigrants and natives, in explaining inter-occupational and intra-occupational earnings progression … mainly driven by intra-occupational earnings progression. Moreover, and contrary to what is observed for natives, we detect …

Progress in narrowing black-white earnings differences has been far from continuous, with some of the apparent progress … racial and ethnic differences in male earnings from 1950 through 2010 using data from the decennial census and American … Community Surveys. Emphasis is given to annual rather than weekly or hourly earnings. Treatment of imputed earnings greatly …

-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK … individual characteristics on earnings. This helped us to prevent selectivity biases such as cohort bias and survivor bias, which … are disproportionately non-white, suffer an earnings penalty in the labour market, whereas higher paid immigrants, whom …