Arbeitspapier

Heterogeneous Returns to Personality - The Role of Occupational Choice

We analyze the role of personality in occupational choice and wages using data from Germany for the years 1992 to 2009. Characterizing personality by use of seven complementary measures, the empirical findings show that it is an important determinant of occupational choice. Associated with that, identical personality traits are differently rewarded across occupations. By evaluating different personality profiles, we estimate the influence of personality as a whole. The estimates establish occupation-specific patterns of significant returns to particular personality profiles. These findings underline the importance to consider the occupational distribution when analyzing returns to personality due to its heterogeneous valuation.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Diskussionsbeitrag ; No. 495

Classification
Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions
Subject
occupational choice
wage differentials
Big Five personality traits
locus of control
measures of reciprocity
SOEP

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
John, Katrin
Thomsen, Stephan L.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
(where)
Hannover
(when)
2012

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • John, Katrin
  • Thomsen, Stephan L.
  • Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät

Time of origin

  • 2012

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