Gregariousness, interactive jobs and wages

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Gregariousness is an important aspect of human life with implications for labour market outcomes. The paper examines, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and associated wage differentials. Our empirical findings with samples from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) demonstrate that gregarious people more often work in jobs with social interaction. Furthermore, females tend to work more often in interactive jobs compared to males. There is evidence that working in an interactive job is associated with a compensating negative wage differential of 7 percent for women and non for men. Implications for wage policy are discussed.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 11-001

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Labor Economics: General ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
• Subject: Gregariousness ; social interactions ; labour markets ; sorting ; wage differentials

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Pfeiffer, Friedhelm ; Schulz, Nico Johannes
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/44465
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-31126
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET