This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology.The measures used by psychologists to infer traits are based on behaviors, broadlydefined. These behaviors are produced from multiple traits interacting with incentivesin situations. In general, measures are...

We provide an explanation for the common finding that the effect of retirement onlife satisfaction is negligible. For this we use subjective well-being measures for lifeand domains of life satisfaction that are available in the German Socio-Economic Panel(GSOEP) and show that the effect of...

A meta-analysis is used to study the average wage effects of on-the-job training. This study shows that the average reported wage effect of on-the-job training, corrected for publication bias, is 2.6 per cent per course. The analyses reveal a substantial heterogeneity between training courses,...

We develop a new model to explain the occupational structure of Dutchsectors of industry. The non-homothetic production function we use takesaccount of capital-skill complementarities, skill-biased technological changeand the interaction between labour demand and supply.We estimate the...