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- Title
Personality and Labour Market Income: Evidence from Longitudinal Data.
- Authors
Viinikainen, Jutta; Kokko, Katja; Pulkkinen, Lea; Pehkonen, Jaakko
- Abstract
This study contributes to the literature on how personality is rewarded in the labour market by examining the relationship between personality and labour market income. Our results suggest that adulthood extraversion is positively associated with income when education, work experience, and unemployment history, measured prospectively from longitudinal data, are controlled for. In addition, childhood constructiveness indicating active and well-controlled behaviour has a positive association with income in adulthood.
- Subjects
LABOR market; PERSONALITY; MENTAL health; EDUCATION; COOPERATIVE education; VOCATIONAL education; UNEMPLOYMENT; ADULTS; INCOME
- Publication
LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics & Industrial Relations, 2010, Vol 24, Issue 2, p201
- ISSN
1121-7081
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9914.2010.00477.x