Personality traits and occupational attainment

By M. Jackson. 2006

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The Returns to Cognitive Abilities and Personality Traits in Germany (2010, methodology): “…personality might self-select into specific jobs that either reward certain traits or offset the lack of some traits (cf., e.g., Filer, 1986 or Jackson, 2006).12 To test for non-linearities in the relationship between cognitive and non-cognitive skills and earnings we estimate regressions…”
Does it Pay to Be Nice? Personality and Earnings in the United Kingdom (2011, background): “…Plug (2006), this specification is informative since an individual’s personality may also affect selection into certain jobs (e.g., Filer, 1986 or Jackson, 2006).14 Further following Mueller and Plug (2006), additional regressions are estimated that attempt to capture non-linearities in the…”
Income Inequality, Intergenerational Mobility, and the Great Gatsby Curve: Is Education the Key? (2015, background): “Other examples might include personality, eloquence, the ability to read emotions, and other noncognitive skills that do not influence offspring’s educational attainment (Jackson 2006).”
The role of education in intergenerational social mobility: Problems from empirical research in sociology and some theoretical pointers from economics (2014, background): “…kind likely to be incentiveenhancing does significantly raise earnings returns to schooling and, more generally, the importance of personality characteristics for occupational attainment, independently of formal qualifications, is becoming increasingly recognised (e.g. Groves, 2004; Jackson, 2006).”