How important is your personality? Labor market returns to personality for women in the US and UK

By M. Groves. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science

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The lifetime earnings premia of different majors: Correcting for selection based on cognitive, noncognitive, and unobserved factors (2014, methodology): “An individual with a high score on the Rotter Scale believes their actions have little impact on the quality of their life, and has commonly been used as a measure of noncognitive skill in the labor literature (Osborne-Groves, 2005; Heckman et al., 2006).”
Personality and the marginal utility of income: Personality interacts with increases in household income to determine life satisfaction (2011, background): “Mueller & Plug (2006), Nyhus & Pons (2005), Groves (2005) and Semykina & Linz (2007) have all used personality measures to predict an individual’s wages.”
Noncognitive Skills, Occupational Attainment, and Relative Wages (2009, unknown): “The lack of a significant role for self-efficacy in women’s occupational attainment is interesting in light of previous results that women with an internal locus of control earn more than women with an external locus of control (Grove, 2005; Linz and Semykina, 2008).”
Does it Pay to Be Nice? Personality and Earnings in the United Kingdom (2011, methodology): “This study adds to the literature in several ways: a) there so far is only work on British women (Bowles et al., 2001a, 2001b; Osborne Groves, 2005) so this paper updates and generalizes evidence for both women and men in the UK; b) adding to previous research that mostly employs single personality ”
Locus of control and the labor market (2015, unknown): “It is no surprise then that having an internal locus of control has been linked with higher earnings (e.g., Heineck and Anger 2010; Piatek and Pinger 2010; Semykina and Linz 2007; Osborne Groves 2005; Osborne 2000; Goldsmith et al. 1997; Duncan and Dunifon 1998; Andrisani 1977, 1981), faster earning”
Good for the Soul: the relationship between work, wellbeing and psychological capital (2009, background): “• ‘Personality’ or ‘psychological traits’ – characteristics other than human capital variables that account for differences in peoples’ economic success (Osborne-Groves, 2004);”
Two Economists' Musings on the Stability of Locus of Control (2011, background): “It is not surprising then that locus of control has been shown to have a substantial influence on key economic outcomes including earnings (Heineck and Anger, 2010; Semykina and Linz, 2007; Osborne Groves, 2005; Goldsmith et al., 1997; Duncan and Dunifon, 1998; Andrisani, 1981, 1977), educational at”
Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies (2010, unknown): “We measure an individual’s locus of control using his or her responses to nine separate items from the Rotter (1966) scale.”