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Are Economists' Preferences Psychologists' Personality Traits? A Structural Approach
Jagelka, Tomáš - 2020
modelling of random components of decision making is crucial to establishing the long supposed but empirically elusive link …
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The Effects of Personality Traits on Adult Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from Siblings
Fletcher, Jason M. - 2012
While large literatures have shown that cognitive ability and schooling increases employment and wages, an emerging literature examines the importance of so-called "non-cognitive skills" in producing labor market outcomes. However, this smaller literature has not typically used causal methods in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109430
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Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies
Caliendo, Marco - 2016
entrepreneurship literature has emphasised the important role of personality traits as predictors for start-up decisions and business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001335
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Cognitive Skills, Noncognitive Skills, and School-to-Work Transitions in Rural China
Glewwe, Paul - 2017
Economists have long recognized the important role of formal schooling and cognitive skills on labor market participation and wages. More recently, increasing attention has turned to the role of personality traits, or noncognitive skills. This study is among the first to examine how both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962277
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Becoming an Entrepreneur
Ñopo, Hugo - 2007
employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non … employment to entrepreneurship are positive, statistically significant and financially substantial. Even more, the results are … salaried jobs to entrepreneurship and lower losses on the reverse switch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777087
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Born Entrepreneur? Adolescents' Personality Characteristics and Self-Employment in Adulthood
Viinikainen, Jutta - 2016
also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship …
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Integrating Personality Psychology into Economics
Heckman, James J. - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120816
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The Stability of Big-Five Personality Traits
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011
We use a large, nationally-representative sample of working-age adults to demonstrate that personality (as measured by the Big Five) is stable over a four-year period. Average personality changes are small and do not vary substantially across age groups. Intra-individual personality change is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120821
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills During Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Anger, Silke - 2011
This study examines cognitive and non-cognitive skills and their transmission from parents to children as one potential candidate to explain the intergenerational link of socio-economic status. Using representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we contrast the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123917
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Non-Cognitive Skills and Personality Traits : Labour Market Relevance and Their Development in Education & Training Systems
Brunello, Giorgio - 2011
This paper reviews the empirical economic literature on the relative importance of non cognitive skills for school and labour market outcomes, with a focus on Europe. There is evidence that high cognitive test scores are likely to result not only from high cognitive skills but also from high...
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