This paper systematically investigates whether different kinds of personality characteristics influence entrepreneurial … and further personality characteristics, which are more specifically related to entrepreneurial tasks, influence entry …

education and personality traits. I identify a previously undocumented interaction between education and traits in earnings … generation, which results in important heterogeneity of the net present value of education. Personality traits directly affect … more educated men. Personality and IQ also influence earnings indirectly through educational choice. Surprisingly …

concepts of personality – such as the Big Five and locus of control – are related. We analyze data from incentivized laboratory … experiments and representative samples and find only low degrees of association between economic preferences and personality. We … preference and personality measures. The analysis reveals that the two concepts are rather complementary when it comes to …

We collected personality (Big Five) and demographic characteristics, and ran incentivized experiments measuring …

This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality … and across states to identify the effect of schooling on students' Big Five personality traits and on their locus of … students and students from disrupted families showed stronger personality changes following the reform: they became more …

, and the labor market segmentation channel. We uncover what we believe is convincing evidence that the severity of credit … net job creation and higher failure rates of firms. Finally, labor market segmentation seems to have favored a stronger …

labor market comparative advantage and segmentation in the participation and earnings performance of workers in formal and …. Our results offer evidence for both comparative advantage and segmentation. No significant differences between the … are more consistent with segmentation. …

segmentation between migrants and urban natives, and the changes of these aspects from 2002 to 2007. We find that prior migration …

with one part of it being competitive to the formal sector and another part being the result of market segmentation. To …

formal methods (e.g., newspaper ads). In equilibrium, the matching process generates segmentation in the labor market because …