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The role of preferences, attitudes, and personality traits in labor market matching
Haylock, Michael Robert; Kampkötter, Patrick - In: Economics letters 185 (2019), pp. 1-3
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Leadership experiences, labor market entry, and early career trajectories
Lundin, Martin; Nordström Skans, Oskar; Zetterberg, Pär - 2016
We study how leadership experiences before labor market entry affect subsequent labor market performance, using a regression discontinuity design to isolate the causal effects. The design is applied to elections of representatives at Swedish student union (SU) councils. Archive data on winning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440268
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Employment chances of immigrants and their children in Germany: Does sense of personal control matter?
Thum-Thysen, Anna - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 16, pp. 1-25
Labour market integration is a social process suggesting that personality traits are relevant. This paper explores …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586067
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Employment chances of immigrants and their children in Germany : does sense of personal control matter?
Thum-Thysen, Anna - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 16, pp. 1-25
Labour market integration is a social process suggesting that personality traits are relevant. This paper explores …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011529099
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Labor outcomes during the transition from adolescence to adulthood : the role of personality, cognition, and shocks in Madagascar
Sahn, David E.; Villa, Kira M. - 2016
specific personality traits and cognition on a sequence of labor market outcomes for a sample of Malagasy individuals as they …, labor market sectoral selection, and within sector earnings. The personality traits we examine are the Big Five Personality … personality, as well as cognitive test scores, affect these outcomes of interest, and that their impact on labor supply is, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580922
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Student aid, academic achievement and labor market behavior
Joensen, Juanna Schrøter; Mattana, Elena - 2017
How does the financial aid allocation mechanism affect student behavior? We provide a framework for quantifying the impact of financial aid on student debt, academic capital, and labor market outcomes. We specify and estimate a dynamic discrete choice model of simultaneous education, work, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796430
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Productivity outcomes in online labor markets and within-task complexity and difficultly
Mourelatos, Evaggelos; Giannakopoulos, Nicholas; … - 2020
We analyze the impact of within-task difficulty and complexity on workers' productivity in online labor markets. Using a randomized control quasi-experiment in AMT we are able to define the difficulty and complexity embodied in requested sub-tasks within a problem-solved task. We find that our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391079
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Is being agreeable a key to success or failure in the labor market?
Lee, Sun Youn; Ōtake, Fumio - 2016
personality traits, explain variation in labor market outcomes. Japanese and U.S. survey data were analyzed to examine the … associations between personality traits and later outcomes in the two countries. We focused on country-specific, noncognitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434020
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The Wrong Man for the Job : Biased Beliefs and Job Mismatching
Maggian, Valeria - 2017
In this paper we build a theoretical model to show the role of self-confidence in leading to inefficient job matching equilibria: under-confident highly-qualified workers do not apply for highly-skilled jobs, because mistakenly perceive themselves as having relatively lower abilities with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963724
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Is Being Agreeable a Key to Success or Failure in the Labor Market?
Lee, Sun Youn - 2016
-Five personality traits, explain the variation in labor market outcomes. By analyzing the Japanese and US survey data, this study … attempts to analyze how personality traits are associated with labor market outcomes in these two countries. We focus on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997706