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Job search, locus of control, and internal migration

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hennecke, Juliane - 2016

Internal migration can substantially improve labor market efficiency. Consequently, policy is often targeted towards reducing the barriers workers face in moving to new labor markets. In this paper we explicitly model internal migration as the result of a job search process and demonstrate that...

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Arbeitszufriedenheit und Persönlichkeit : "Wer schaffen will, muss fröhlich sein!"

Jebsen, Simon - 2011

The research on job satisfaction has a long history and is one of the most intensively studied subjects - not only in the field of industrial and organizational psychology. The various studies can roughly be classified into situational, dispositional, and hybrid approaches, depending on whether...

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A critique and reframing of personality in labour market theory : locus of control and labour market outcomes

Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2011

This article critically examines the theoretical arguments that underlie the literature linking personality traits to economic outcomes and provides empirical evidence indicating that labour market outcomes influence personality outcomes. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we...

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Changing identity : retiring from unemployment

Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2011

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in...

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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive skills during adolescence and young adulthood

Anger, Silke - 2012

correlations of cognitive skills in Germany are roughly the same or slightly stronger than those found by previous studies for … Germany seem to be considerably higher than the ones found for the U.S.. Hence, skill transmission does not seem to be able to …

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Revisiting the complementarity between education and training : the role of personality, working tasks and firm effects

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2012

This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between education and training can be attributed to differences in observable characteristics, i.e. to individual, job and firm specific characteristics. The novelty of this paper is to analyze previously unconsidered...

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Stepping forward : personality traits, choice of profession, and the decision to become self-employed

Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina - 2013

We argue that entrepreneurial choice proceeds in at least in two steps, with vocational choice nearly always preceding choice of employment status, whether that be self-employment or dependent employment. Since the two decisions are interrelated, analysis of entrepreneurial choice as a single...

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The type to train? : impacts of personality characteristics on further training participation

Offerhaus, Judith - 2012 - Version: December 2012

Personality traits drive behaviors and attitudes, and determine socio-economic life outcomes for individuals. This paper investigates the relationship of six personality traits, the Big Five and Locus of Control, to individual participation in employment-related further education and training...

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The impact of education on personality : evidence from a German high school reform

Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - 2014

traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001 …, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine to eight years in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the … point to important heterogeneous effects. In addition to differences between East and West Germany, we find that male …

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Personality changes in couples : partnership longevity and personality congruence in couples

Rammstedt, Beatrice; Spinath, Frank M.; Richter, David; … - 2013

Evidence of assortative mating according to personality was reported in a previous SOEP-based study (Rammstedt & Schupp, 2008). Based on population representative data of almost 7,000 couples, high levels of congruence between spouses were found, which increased with marriage duration. Almost...

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