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Does personality matter? : the impact of the Big Five on the migrant and gender wage gaps
Brenzel, Hanna; Laible, Marie-Christine - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523423
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Who makes it to the top? : differential rewards to personality across gender and occupation in the UK
Josten, Cecily; Lordan, Grace - 2024
differing rewards across gender that cannot be explained with productivity. We investigate if personality traits affect the … likelihood of making it to the top income quintile within an occupation differently by gender using UK Household Longitudinal … gender norms for wages. Further, female legislators and senior officials who are conscientious, extraverted, neurotic and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463253
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Masculine vs feminine personality traits and women's employment outcomes in Britain : a field experiment
Drydakis, Nick; Sidiropoulou, Katerina; Patnaik, Swetketu; … - 2017
In the current study, we utilized a correspondent test to capture the way in which firms respond to women who exhibit masculine and feminine personality traits. In doing so, we minimized the potential for reverse causality bias and unobserved heterogeneities to occur. Women who exhibit masculine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129058
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Masculine vs feminine personality traits and women's employment outcomes in Britain : a field experiment
Drydakis, Nick; Sidiropoulou, Katerina; Patnaik, Swetketu; … - 2017
In the current study, we utilized a correspondent test to capture the way in which firms respond to women who exhibit masculine and feminine personality traits. In doing so, we minimized the potential for reverse causality bias and unobserved heterogeneities to occur. Women who exhibit masculine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764671
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Can personality traits explain glass ceilings?
Collischon, Matthias - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011824923
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Overeducation and wages : the role of cognitive skills and personality traits
Palczyńska, Marta - In: Baltic journal of economics 21 (2021) 1, pp. 85-111
This article investigates the extent to which personality traits and cognitive skills can be seen as potential determinants of overeducation, and can explain the overeducation wage penalty. Using a representative survey of the Polish working-age population with well-established measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012598764
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The returns to personality traits across the wage distribution
Collischon, Matthias - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011701178
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The Returns to Personality Traits Across the Wage Distribution
Collischon, Matthias - 2017
This paper investigates variation in the wage effects of non-cognitive skills across the wage distribution. I expect (i) increasing explanatory power and (ii) increasing magnitudes of the effects of non-cognitive skills on wages across the wage distribution. I test these hypotheses using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946840
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Sibling gender composition and women's wages
Cools, Angela; Patacchini, Eleonora - 2017
We examine the impact of sibling gender composition on women's adult earnings. Using data from Add Health, we find that …, self-reported personality traits, or parental expectations drive our results. However, we find that more family …-centered behavior (including family responsibilities, being in a committed relationship, and intention to have children) among those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731990
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Sibling Gender Composition and Women's Wages
Cools, Angela - 2017
We examine the impact of sibling gender composition on women's adult earnings. Using data from Add Health, we find that …, self-reported personality traits, or parental expectations drive our results. However, we find that more family …-centered behavior (including family responsibilities, being in a committed relationship, and intention to have children) among those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947140