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This paper examines whether men's and women's noncognitive skills influence their occupational attainment and, if so, whether this contributes to the disparity in their relative wages. We find that noncognitive skills have a substantial effect on the probability of employment in many, though not...
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We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers' hiring decisions. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in which fictitious job applications are sent to real job openings in Belgium. The only characteristic in which these...
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important role in producing both personality and other non-cognitive skills and labor market outcomes is family background …, including genetic endowments. This paper is the first to use sibling differences to estimate the effects of personality on … ability, schooling, occupation, and other factors. Overall, the findings suggest that personality measures are important …
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What can employers learn from personality tests when job applicants have incentives to misrepresent themselves? Using a … within-subject, laboratory experiment, we compare personality measures with and without incentives for misrepresentation …. Incentivized personality measures are weakly to moderately correlated with non-incentivized measures in most treatments but are …
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of hireability and rated personality, similar in terms of rated taste to collaborate but worse in terms of rated direct …
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