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We investigate whether the Big Five Personality Dimensions contribute to explaining gender and migrant wage gaps by … using a linked employer-employee dataset. We expand the scarce literature concerning personality traits and gender wage gaps … associations between the Big Five and wages. The magnitude of this relationship varies across the gender and the migratory status …
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This paper investigates whether personality traits can explain glass ceilings (increasing gender wage gaps across the … up to 14.5% of the overall gender wage gap. However, controlling for personality traits does not lead to a significant …
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This paper analyzes how apprenticeship training, i.e., work-based secondary education, affects personality traits compared to full-time school-based vocational or general education. Employing an instrumental variable approach that exploits the regional differences in the relative weight of...
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This study investigates the predictive power of self-control for individuals and their children using population representative data. We use the well-established Brief Self-Control Scale to demonstrate that people's trait self-control is highly predictive of their life outcomes. Higher...
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characteristics, gender, and education. However, evidence on the individual's socio-emotional skills creating favorable conditions for … reason for participating in further training. Moreover, we find gender-specific differences in the association between … Arbeitgebermerkmalen, Geschlecht und Bildung. Jedoch gibt es bisher kaum Evidenz für die Bedeutung individueller sozio …
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This paper investigates heterogeneous wage effects of non-cognitive skills across the wage distribution. I develop a model of wage determination under uncertainty with respect to individual productivity based on three components (minimum wages, productivity premiums, bargaining premiums). Based...
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Although universal childcare has become an essential tool to support child development, few economic studies analyze its effects on non-cognitive skills and little is known about causal effects on these skills in the long run. In this paper we go beyond short run analyses and examine the long...
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This paper analyzes how apprenticeship training, i.e., work-based secondary education, affects personality traits compared to full-time school-based vocational or general education. Employing an instrumental variable approach that exploits the regional differences in the relative weight of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014149009
Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their children's skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills. Drawing on a large-scale survey linked to hospital records, we...
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Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...
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