badly in the labor market in the sense of long-term unemployment or low annual earnings lack noncognitive but not cognitive …

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 …

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 …

Personality Inventory. Our estimates suggest a positive effect of so-called fluid intelligence or speed of cognition on males …' wages only. Findings for personality traits are more heterogeneous. There however is a robust wage penalty for an external …We provide the first joint evidence on the relationship between individuals' cognitive abilities, their personality and …

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. …

find that individuals with higher measured intelligence and self-confidence are more likely to be entrepreneurs …. Furthermore I present evidence suggesting that intelligence and self-confidence affect business ownership through two different … channels: intelligence increases business survival while self-confidence increases business creation. Finally, once we control …

looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on gender differences in career chances. We compare managers and …-Economic Panel (SOEP) in 2005 show that there are significant gender differences in personality traits, multivariate estimations …, personality traits might indeed play a role, albeit more indirectly: Some of the stronger career effects, such as work experience …

, 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 …