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Whereas the preferences of consumers are a cornerstone of market economies, the preferences of employees, e.g., regarding the preferred amount of paid labour, usually are not. However, we have strong evidence that differences between aspired and actually worked weekly hours have a serious...
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, dispositional, and hybrid approaches, depending on whether working conditions, personality traits or their interaction are … studies both in the consideration of personality variables as well as the influence of factors to explain job satisfaction, do … not offer a theoretical framework. This paper investigates the influence of personality characteristics and working …
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(Multicultural Personality Questionnaire) expatriate personality traits – Cultural Empathy, Social Initiative, Emotional Stability … personality traits per se, but the cultural fit between expatriate personality traits and host country cultural values, norms, and … prototypical personality traits that predict expatriate adjustment in host countries (Searle & Ward, 1990). Providing partial …
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personality on employment and wages and is also able to control for many other sources of heterogeneity, including attractiveness …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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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, and variables of age, work experience, salary and education level correlated significant and positive with job … the job satisfaction is explained by three variables of "salary", "education level" and "work experience". …
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Hope is increasingly recognized as an important psychological resource for career development, yet the empirical research on its functioning in this domain is sparse. This paper describes an investigation of how dispositional hope is related to career decidedness, career planning, and career...
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