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education and personality traits. I identify a previously undocumented interaction between education and traits in earnings … generation, which results in important heterogeneity of the net present value of education. Personality traits directly affect … more educated men. Personality and IQ also influence earnings indirectly through educational choice. Surprisingly …
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education and personality traits. I identify a previously undocumented interaction between education and traits in earnings … generation, which results in important heterogeneity of the net present value of education. Personality traits directly affect … more educated men. Personality and IQ also influence earnings indirectly through educational choice. Surprisingly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884095
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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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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By considering the case of rural South India, this study analyses whether individual skills and personality traits are … the relationship between individual cognitive skills (Raven, literacy and numeracy scores), personality traits (Big Five … transition matrices. Then, we take advantage of intra-group heterogeneity in terms of cognitive skills and personality traits to …
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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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