Sorting in the Labor Market:Do Gregarious Workers Flock to Interactive Jobs?

This paper tests a central implication of the theory of equalizing differences, that workers sortinto jobs with different attributes based on their preferences for those attributes. We presentevidence from four new time-use data sets for the United States and France on whetherworkers who are more gregarious, as revealed by their behavior when they are not working,tend to be employed in jobs that involve more social interactions...

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Year of publication:	2007-04-01
Authors:	Krueger, Alan B. ; Schkade, David
Institutions:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
Subject:	Arbeitsmarkt \| Labour Market \| Theorie \| Eigenschaft

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Extent:	566272 bytes 42 p. application/pdf
Series:	IZA - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit - Discussion Papers IZA Discussion Paper ; No. 2730 (2007)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	J00 - Labor and Demographic Economics. General ; Ergonomic job analysis ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; No country specification
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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