While large literatures have shown that cognitive ability and schooling increases employment and wages, an emerging … 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 …

, employer change, quits, training, wages, and job satisfaction). …

We investigate the effects of works councils on employees' wages and job satisfaction in general and for subgroups with … support for the hypothesis that the introduction of a works council itself increases wages or job satisfaction for the …

higher wages. This evidence can be explained by increased mobility costs associated with higher expected risk of post …

This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success …, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of … preferences, constraints, and information. Evidence is reviewed about the situational specificity of personality traits and …

applicants' intellectual ability, personality, and motivation. This allows the first experimental estimates of (i) the role of … fill vacancies, as well as the role of wages in helping fill positions in less attractive municipalities. A theoretical … model guides each stage of the empirical inquiry. We find that higher wages attract more able applicants as measured by …