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Creativity, analytical skills, personality traits, and innovation game behavior in the lab: An experiment
Bäker, Agnes; Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, … - 2011
&D or patent data. This research, however, is only poorly informed about the psychological tradition of creativity research …. Our study is an attempt to experimentally collect behavioral data revealing in how far creativity, analytical skills … participants' performance in the innovation games is in fact related to their creativity, risk tolerance and self-control. Other …
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Creative Class vs. Individual Creativity - A Multi-level Approach to the Geography of Creativity
Alfken, Christoph - 2014
ecological fallacy. Hitherto, economic geographers seem to have ignored insides from other disciplines studying creativity. In … psychology it is not a dichotomy of creative and non-creative individuals, instead it is acknowledged that creativity is a matter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400078
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Creativity, analytical skills, personality traits, and innovative capability: A lab experiment
Güth, Werner; Pull, Kerstin; Stadler, Manfred - 2012
Innovation economics is usually neglecting the psychological tradition of creativity research. Our study is an attempt … to experimentally collect behavioral data revealing in how far personality characteristics like creativity, analytical … are interrelated. We find that participants' performance in innovation games is related to their creativity, risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310156
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Female labor force participation and the big five
Wichert, Laura; Pohlmeier, Winfried - 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits and female labor force participation. While research on the role of cognitive skills for individual labor market success has a long tradition in economics, comparatively little is known about the channels through which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299928
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Impacts of parental health on children's development of personality traits and problem behavior: Evidence from parental health shocks
Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M.; Westermaier, Franz - 2011
In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on observed parental health shocks as a more exogenous source of health variation to identify these effects and control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306004
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Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits - the Big Five - on an individual's decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600985
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The returns to cognitive abilities and personality traits in Germany
Heineck, Guido; Anger, Silke - 2008
We provide the first joint evidence on the relationship between individuals' cognitive abilities, their personality and earnings for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we employ scores from an ultra-short IQ-test and a set of measures of personality traits, namely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265041
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Antagonistic managers, careless workers and extraverted salespeople: an examination of personality in occupational choice
Ham, Roger; Junankar, P. N. (Raja); Wells, Robert - 2009
This paper is an econometric investigation of the choice of individuals between a number of occupation groupings utilising an extensive array of conditioning variables measuring a variety of aspects of individual heterogeneity. Whilst the model contains the main theory of occupational choice,...
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The economics and psychology of personality traits
Borghans, Lex; Duckworth, Angela Lee; Heckman, James Joseph - 2008
This paper explores the interface between personality psychology and economics. We examine the predictive power of personality and the stability of personality traits over the life cycle. We develop simple analytical frameworks for interpreting the evidence in personality psychology and suggest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277205
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The Returns to Cognitive Abilities and Personality Traits in Germany
Heineck, Guido; Anger, Silke - In: Labour Economics 17 (2010) 3, pp. 535-546
We provide the first joint evidence on the relationship between individuals' cognitive abilities, their personality and earnings for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we employ scores from an ultra-short IQ-test and a set of measures of personality traits, namely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311123