The effects of personality on earnings

By E. Nyhus, E. Pons. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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The Returns to Cognitive Abilities and Personality Traits in Germany (2010, methodology): “While this may seem implausible at first glance it is consistent with theoretical arguments above and with previous research (cf. Nyhus and Pons, 2005, or Mueller and Plug, 2006).”
Non-Cognitive Skills and Personality Traits: Labour Market Relevance and Their Development in Education & Training Systems (2011, methodology): “Following the definition by Nyhus and Pons, 2005, this model includes the following factors: agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, extraversion and autonomy.”
Unemployment duration and personality (2011, background): “Nyhus and Pons (2005) find that Neuroticism is negatively associated with the wage of both women and men, while Agreeableness is negatively associated with lower wages only for women for the Netherlands.”
Individual determinants of work attendance: evidence on the role of personality (2013, background): “ Following an approach by Nyhus and Pons (2005) and adopted by Heineck and Anger (2008), we therefore regress each personality trait on age and age squared and include the standardized residual from this regression into our empirical analysis.”
Why do low-educated workers invest less in further training? (2010, methodology): “7 The DNB Household Survey was previously used, for example, to study the effect of personality on earnings (Nyhus and Pons, 2005).”
Personality, IQ, and Lifetime Earnings (2018, methodology): “It is also possible hat agreeable individuals select into lower-paying occupations, or that hey have lower manipulative power, or ‘Machiavellian intelligence ’ Turner and Martinez, 1977 , pointed out by Nyhus and Pons, 2005 ).”
Who Earns More and Why? A Multiple Mediation Model from Personality to Salary (2011, background): “In an extensive literature review, we identified nine additional studies addressing the Big Five-salary link, which were not mentioned in the meta-analysis by Ng and colleagues (Dilchert and Ones 2008; Ferris et al. 2001; Gelissen and de Graaf 2006; Hülsheger et al. 2006; Nyhus and Pons 2005; Palifk”
The Big Five Personality Traits in the Political Arena (2011, background): “Economists find evidence that dispositional personality traits predict behavior in economic games (Ben-Ner et al. 2008, Koole et al. 2001) as well as wages (Nyhus & Pons 2005) and occupational status (De Fruyt & Mervielde 1999).”
The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities (2010, background): “38, while the meta-study by Plomin and Spinath (2004) reports a correlation of 0.”
Comparing models of counterproductive workplace behaviors: The Five-Factor Model and the Dark Triad (2015, methodology): “The FFM has been used to study work related constructs, including workplace bullying (Lind, Glaso, Pallesen, & Einarsen, 2009), workplace accidents (Clarke & Robertson, 2008), salary earnings (Nyhus & Pons, 2005), and job satisfaction (Jong, Velde, & Jansen, 2001).”
Personality and marital surplus (2012, unknown): “Using Dutch data, Nyhus and Pons (2005) find that emotional stability is positively related to the wages of men and women, while agreeableness is associated with lower wages for women.”