This paper considers how perceptions of costs and benefits can influence the association between personality and risky …; recreational; social) using the DOSPERT and measured personality using the NEO PI-R. Results from structural equation modelling … showed that personality had a direct effect on risky choice behaviour in four domains (social, ethical, gambling and …

personality and power relationships that influence the confidence that recipients may place in the sufficiency of evidence and … assigned personality traits to agents, to explore their receptivity to evidence. Agents with ‘aggressor’ personality sets were … most able to imbue fellow agents with enhanced receptivity (with ‘avoider’ personality sets less so) and clear confidence …

countries in terms of education, earnings, and employment. …

In the empirical literature on work experience, job tenure, training and earnings, only one previous study has made a … training and vocational institute training for the current occupation have highly significant effects on earnings, with work … significantly negative effect on the earnings of those with high cognitive test scores, the previous-occupation counterparts do not …

The analysis is concerned with the contributions of numeracy and literacy to earnings, for three reasons: first, no … the contributions of numeracy and literacy as reflected in earnings. The results suggest that numeracy has a highly … significant effect on earnings, mostly through its effect on college attainment, but also directly, controlling for attainment …

treatment. Adjustments in wages cannot explain this result as they are increasing for the treated groups relative to the control …

earnings among individuals into the part due to changes in earnings among establishments and the part due to changes in … earnings within-establishments and finds that much of the 1970s-2010s increase in earnings inequality results from increased … dispersion of the earnings among the establishments where individuals work. It also shows that the divergence of establishment …

Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we show performance pay (PP) increased earnings dispersion …