The returns to cognitive abilities and personality traits in Germany

Arbeitspapier

We provide the first joint evidence on the relationship between individuals' cognitive abilities, their personality and earnings for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we employ scores from an ultra-short IQ-test and a set of measures of personality traits, namely locus of control, reciprocity and all basic items from the Five Factor Personality Inventory. Our estimates suggest a positive effect of so-called fluid intelligence or speed of cognition on males' wages only. Findings for personality traits are more heterogeneous. There however is a robust wage penalty for an external locus of control for both men and women.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 836

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Analysis of Education
• Thema: Cognitive abilities ; personality traits ; Five Factor Model ; Locus of control ; reciprocity ; wages ; Bildungsertrag ; Kognition ; Persönlichkeitspsychologie ; Lohn ; Deutschland

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Heineck, Guido ; Anger, Silke
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
• (wo): Berlin
• (wann): 2008

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/27359
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ