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 …

There is an increasing economic literature considering personality traits as a source of individual differences in … disciplines, the common psychometric measures used to assess personality are discussed and critical assumptions for their … application are highlighted. We sketch current research that aims at incorporating personality traits into economic models of …

number of life events on the Big Five personality traits and locus of control. A subset of life events have large impacts on … then demonstrate that treating personality traits as fixed can lead to biased estimates of their relationship with …

This paper shows that unemployment and (some) personality traits are related. Individuals with low scores in the Big … durations, and experience more status changes between employment and unemployment. Results suggests that personality is an … important determinant of women’s risk of unemployment, but for men personality is more a matter of job keeping. …