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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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This study tests whether personality traits are legitimately rewarded in the labour market or whether there are … differing rewards across gender that cannot be explained with productivity. We investigate if personality traits affect the … open are more likely to be among the top earners than men. Other than that, we find small gender differences in personality …
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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
of hireability and rated personality, similar in terms of rated taste to collaborate but worse in terms of rated direct …
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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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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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