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Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2009

There is an increasing economic literature considering personality. This paper provides an overview on the role of …. Based on the relevant literature from different disciplines, the common psychometric measures used to assess personality are … discussed. A recently proposed theoretical framework of human capital production takes personality explicitly into account. It …

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Noncognitive skills in economics: Models, measurement, and empirical evidence

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Noncognitive skills, occupational attainment, and relative wages

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The Labor Market Returns to Cognitive and Noncognitive Ability: Evidence from the Swedish Enlistment

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Hard evidence on soft skills

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Firms and skills : the evolution of worker sorting

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