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Title: How Important Is Your Personality? Labor Market Returns to Personality for Women in the US and UK
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1. Osborne Groves, Melissa
How Important Is Your Personality? Labor Market Returns to Personality for Women in the US and UK
Journal of Economic Psychology 26,6 (December 2005): 827-841.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167487005000358
Cohort(s): Young Women
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Keyword(s): Britain, British; Cognitive Development; Cross-national Analysis; Economics of Gender; Educational Attainment; Human Capital; Modeling; NCDS - National Child Development Study (British); Occupational Choice; Skills; Training, Occupational; Training, On-the-Job; Wage Determination; Wage Differentials; Wage Levels; Wages, Women

Why do apparently similar people have varied success in the labor market? While cognitive performance and educational attainment have been shown to be strong indicators of economic success, there remains a large portion of unexplained variance in earnings after controlling for the standard variables. This paper uses the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women and women from the National Child Development Study to explore the value of incorporating psychological traits into wage determination models. This research finds that traits such as locus of control, aggression, and withdrawal are all statistically significant factors in the wage determination models of white women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR; Copyright 2005 Elsevier]
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Osborne Groves, Melissa. "How Important Is Your Personality? Labor Market Returns to Personality for Women in the US and UK." Journal of Economic Psychology 26,6 (December 2005): 827-841.