Gender Differences in Personality and Earnings:Evidence from Russia

By Anastasia Semykina, Susan J. Linz. 2007

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Locus of control and the labor market (2015, unknown): “…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 earnings…”
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 ”
The Returns to Cognitive Abilities and Personality Traits in Germany (2010, background): “Based on Russian data, Semykina and Linz (2007) find a positive association between an internal LOC and females’ earnings.”
Personality and the marginal utility of income: Personality interacts with increases in household income to determine life satisfaction (2011, background): “Semykina and Linz (2007) find that personality traits explain as much as 8% of the gender wage gap.”
Two Economists' Musings on the Stability of Locus of Control (2011, background): “Empirical studies of the importance of non-cognitive skills for economic outcomes often go a step further and assume that these skills are not only stable, but are fixed over the relevant time frame (Heineck and Anger, 2010; Cebi, 2007; Semykina and Linz, 2007; Goldsmith et al., 1997; Andrisani, 197”
Unobservable, but unimportant? The relevance of usually unobserved variables for the evaluation of labor market policies☆ (2017, background): “Several studies find a statistically significant effect of the locus of control on individual earnings (e.g. Andrisani, 1977; Heineck and Anger, 2010; Semykina and Linz, 2007) and job search strategies (e.g. Caliendo et al., 2014; McGee, 2015).”
Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies (2010, unknown): “These relationships are consistent with previous evidence that having an internal locus of control is correlated with labor market success (Andrisani, 1977, 1981; Osborne Groves, 2005; Semykina and Linz, 2007; Duncan and Dunifon, 1998).”