Unemployment and personality: Are conscientiousness and agreeableness related to employability?

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This paper shows that unemployment and (some) personality traits are related. Individuals with low scores in the Big Five dimensions conscientiousness and agreeableness have a higher probability of being unemployed, longer unemployment durations, and experience more status changes between employment and unemployment. Results suggests that personality is an important determinant of women's risk of unemployment, but for men personality is more a matter of job keeping.

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• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Hannover Economic Papers (HEP) ; No. 621

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Classification Methods; Cluster Analysis; Principal Components; Factor Models
• Subject: Noncognitive skills ; Personality ; Unemployment ; Factor models

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Engelhardt, Carina
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
• (where): Hannover
• (when): 2017

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/200633