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Kritikos, Alexander - 2022

Does personality matter? Is an individual who is open to experience more or less likely to become an entrepreneur? Is … it better to score low or high in agreeableness for surviving as an entrepreneur? To the extent that personality captures … one part of entrepreneurial abilities, which are usually unobservable, the analysis of traits and personality …

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Workplace positive actions, trans people's self-esteem and human resources' evaluations

Bozani, Vasiliki; Drydakis, Nick; Sidiropoulou, Katerina; … - 2019

This study provides empirical patterns regarding trans people's self-esteem-oriented reflections during observations of positive workplace actions. The case of a 2015 UK workplace guide is utilized to fulfil our aims. We adopt Rawls' political philosophy framework in order to evaluate whether...

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Identity and learning : a study on the effect of student-teacher gender matching on learning outcomes

Bhattacharya, Sukanta; Dasgupta, Aparajita; Mandal, Kumarjit - 2020

In this paper we examine whether students' and teachers' identity play any role in the learning outcome of students. Specifically, we ask if a student benefits by learning from a teacher of her same gender. Unlike the existing literature which explains such interaction through role model effect...

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The Big Five personality traits and earnings : a meta-analysis

Alderotti, Giammarco; Rapallini, Chiara; Traverso, Silvio - 2021 - [revised]

The past two decades have witnessed an increasing interest in the relationship between personality and labor market … outcomes, as well as the emergence of the Five-Factor Model as the reference framework for the study of personality. In this … and the Big Five personality traits. The analysis combines the results of 63 peer-reviewed articles published between 2001 …

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Task content and job losses in the Great Lockdown

Petroulakis, Filippos - 2020

I examine the short-term labor market effects of the Great Lockdown in the United States. I analyze job losses by task content (Acemoglu & Autor 2011), and show that they follow underlying trends; jobs with a high non-routine content are especially well-protected, even if they are not...

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Wage distributions in origin societies and occupational choices of immigrant generations in the US

Zhan, Crystal - 2020

This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their choices to the occupational wage distribution in their country of origin. The empirical results suggest that individuals are more likely to take up an occupation in the US that was...

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The impact of exposure to missionaries on the English language proficiency and earnings of immigrants in the USA

Larsen, Nicholas; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how potential exposure to missionary activity impacts both English language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design/Methodology/Approach: This study uses the pooled files of the American...

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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.

Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina A. - 2019

This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...

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Personality traits and performance in online labour markets

Mourelatos, Evangelos; Giannakopoulos, Nicholas; … - 2019

personality traits, gender, human capital, crowdsourcing experience and work effort. Regarding the effects of non-cognitive skills …

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Defining and measuring workforce development in the United States in a post-bipartisan era

Holland, Brian - 2018

The bipartisan acceptance of a federal role in workforce development policy is no longer in play as a result of ideological differences in the definition of workforce development which arise from a lack of coherent and misunderstood outcomes. My attempt here is to posit a new definition for...

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