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 …

- personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in school, and in many other domains …

questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2 …) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math ability, language ability) and social ability affect earnings of … entrepreneurs and employees differently?, and (3) Does the balance in these measured ability levels affect an individual's earnings …

This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by … substantial portions of the variance in achievement test scores and grades, which are often used as measures of cognition, are … explained by personality variables. …

, whether this contributes to the disparity in their relative wages. We find that noncognitive skills have a substantial effect … and women with similar noncognitive skills enter occupations at very different rates. Women, however, have lower wages on …

, personality measures are just as predictive as cognitive measures, even after controlling for family background and cognition …. Moreover, standard measures of cognition are heavily influenced by personality traits and incentives. Measured personality … compared to cognition, which becomes highly rank stable around age 10. Interventions that change personality are promising …

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 …

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the … human capital, for immigrants and natives, in explaining inter-occupational and intra-occupational earnings progression … mainly driven by intra-occupational earnings progression. Moreover, and contrary to what is observed for natives, we detect …