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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 paper, we provide the first meta-analytical review of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603412
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Educational mismatches, technological change and unemployment : evidence from secondary and tertiary educated workers
Esposito, Piero; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2020
In this article, we investigate the role of several types of educational mismatch in explaining labour market transitions of workers with secondary and higher education. We focus on transitions from employment to unemployment and on job changes, to assess whether mismatch is a temporary or a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012158785
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The Big Five personality traits and earnings : a meta-analysis
Alderotti, Giammarco; Rapallini, Chiara; Traverso, Silvio - 2021
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 paper, we provide the first meta-analytical review of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597702
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Human values and selection into supervisory positions : evidence from nine European countries
Hazans, Mihails; Masso, Jaan; Maurseth, Per Botolf - 2023
Do employees with supervisory responsibilities differ from other workers in terms of human values, especially those potentially affecting the quality and efficiency of supervision? This paper uses data from rounds 7-9 of the European Social Survey to examine the selection of employees into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446095
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Strategic behaviours in a labour market with mobility-restricting contractual provisions : evidence from the National Hockey League
Fumarco, Luca; Longley, Neil; Palermo, Alberto; Rossi, … - 2024
We follow workers' performance along an unbalanced panel dataset over multiple years and study how performance varies at the end of fixed-term contracts, in a labour market where some people face a mobility restricting clause (i.e., a noncompete clause). Focusing on the labour market of the...
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When reality bites : local deaths and vaccine take-up
Giulie i, Corrado; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Zenou, Yves - 2021
In this study, we investigate whether COVID-19 deaths that occurred before vaccination rollouts impact subsequent vaccination take-up. We use data on local vaccination rates and COVID-19-related deaths from England measured at high geographic granularity. We nd that vaccination take-up as of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703251
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Gender differences in economics PhD field specializations with correlated choices
Sierminska, Eva; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2021
to specialize in Labor/Health, Macro/Finance, Industrial Organization, Public Economics, and Development …/Growth/International and are more likely to specialize in Agricultural/Resource/Environmental Economics. Field-specific gender faculty ratios … and expected relative salaries as well as economics department rankings are significant factors for gender doctoral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648538
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Adams and Eves : the gender gap in economics majors
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bonacini, Luca; Murat, Marina - 2021
We investigate the gender gap in Economics among bachelor's and master's grad- uates in Italy between 2010 and 2019 …. First we establish that being female exerts a negative impact on the choice to major in Economics: at the bachelor level …, only 73 women graduate in Economics for every 100 men, with the mathematical con- tent of high school curricula as the key …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694262
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Leaders among the leaders in economics : a networkanalysis of the Nobel prize laureates
Molina, José Alberto; Iñiguez, David; Ruiz, Gonzalo; … - 2020
We analyse the production and networks of Nobel laureates in Economics, employing the Normalized Impact Factor (NIF) of … their publications in the Journal of Citation Report (Economics), to identify the academic leaders among those laureates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012211266
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The urgent need for an economics of "hategoatism"
Payson, Steven - 2019
oneself" (Collins English Dictionary and Dictionary.com, respectively.) While these definitions do not mention economics … dehumanization. Only one subfield of economics regularly embraces hategoatism, which is Libertarianism (where the "HATEGOAT" is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152185