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Better Sexy than Flexy? A Lab Experiment Assessing the Impact of Perceived Attractiveness and Personality Traits on Hiring Decisions
Baert, Stijn - 2014
In this letter we present a laboratory experiment to assess the relative and independent effect of perceived attractiveness and personality traits on hiring decisions. Our results indicate that attractiveness and conscientiousness, followed by emotional stability, are important drivers of...
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Do Recruiters Select Workers with Different Personality Traits for Different Tasks? A Discrete Choice Experiment
Wehner, Caroline - 2020
This paper explores whether firms recruit workers with different personality traits for different tasks. For our … favour more open, extraverted, and agreeable workers for interactive tasks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822455
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The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Private Law Enforcement : Evidence from University Police
Heaton, Paul S. - 2015
Over a million people in the United States are employed in private security and law enforcement, yet very little is known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city....
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Personality Traits and Household Consumption Choices
Mangiavacchi, Lucia - 2018
In this paper, we test whether consumption choices are affected by personality traits and whether this impact is different for singles and individuals living in couples. To fulfill this aim, we test the impact of personality on preferences for different commodities using the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908890
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Personality Traits, Remote Work and Productivity
Gavoille, Nicolas; Hazans, Mihails - 2022
The future of teleworking ultimately depends on its impact on workers' productivity and wellbeing, yet the effect of … workers' productivity when working from home. We exploit a survey providing measures of the "Big Five" personality traits for … negative. These results suggest that a one-size-fits-all policy is unlikely to maximize neither firms' productivity nor workers …
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Household Finances and the 'Big Five' Personality Traits
Brown, Sarah - 2011
We explore the relationship between household finances and personality traits from an empirical perspective. Specifically, using individual level data drawn from the British Household Panel Survey, we analyse the influence of personality traits on financial decision-making at the individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117198
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The Stability of Big-Five Personality Traits
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011
We use a large, nationally-representative sample of working-age adults to demonstrate that personality (as measured by the Big Five) is stable over a four-year period. Average personality changes are small and do not vary substantially across age groups. Intra-individual personality change is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120821
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Non-Cognitive Skills and Personality Traits : Labour Market Relevance and Their Development in Education & Training Systems
Brunello, Giorgio - 2011
This paper reviews the empirical economic literature on the relative importance of non cognitive skills for school and labour market outcomes, with a focus on Europe. There is evidence that high cognitive test scores are likely to result not only from high cognitive skills but also from high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124220
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Personality Traits and the Marriage Market
Dupuy, Arnaud - 2012
Which and how many attributes are relevant for the sorting of agents in a matching market? This paper addresses these questions by constructing indices of mutual attractiveness that aggregate information about agents' attributes. The first k indices for agents on each side of the market provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098824
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The Effects of Personality Traits on Adult Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from Siblings
Fletcher, Jason - 2012
While large literatures have shown that cognitive ability and schooling increases employment and wages, an emerging literature examines the importance of so-called "non-cognitive skills" in producing labor market outcomes. However, this smaller literature has not typically used causal methods in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109430