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  • SOEPpapers 921 / 2017

    The Returns to Personality Traits across the Wage Distribution

    This paper investigates heterogeneous wage effects of non-cognitive skills across the wage distribution. I develop a model of wage determination under uncertainty with respect to individual productivity based on three components (minimum wages, productivity premiums, bargaining premiums). Based on this model, I expect (i) a larger importance and (ii) larger effects of non-cognitive skills for high-wage ...

    2017| Matthias Collischon
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Involuntary Job Loss and Changes in Personality Traits

    Economists consider personality traits to be stable, particularly throughout adulthood. However, evidence from psychological studies suggests that the stability assumption may not always be valid, as personality traits can respond to certain life events. Our paper analyzes whether and to what extent personality traits are malleable over a time span of eight years for a sample of working individuals. ...

    In: Journal of Economic Psychology 60 (2017), S. 71-91 | Silke Anger, Georg Camehl, Frauke Peter
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Locus of Control and Low-Wage Mobility

    We investigate whether non-cognitive skills – in particular Locus of Control – are important determinants of mobility processes for male workers at the low-wage margin. Our results reveal a significant amount of state dependence in low pay even after controlling for non-cognitive skills. Furthermore, compared to individuals with an external Locus of Control, individuals with a more internal Locus of ...

    In: Journal of Economic Psychology 53 (2016), S. 164-177 | Daniel D. Schnitzlein, Jens Stephani
  • SOEPpapers 876 / 2016

    On the Interpretation of Non-cognitive Skills: What Is Being Measured and Why It Matters

    Across academic sub-fields such as labor, education, and behavioral economics, the measurement and interpretation of non-cognitive skills varies widely. As a result, it is difficult to compare results on the importance of non-cognitive skills across literatures. Drawing from these literatures, this paper systematically relates various prototypical non-cognitive measures within one data set. Specifically, ...

    2016| John Eric Humphries, Fabian Kosse
  • SOEPpapers 951 / 2017

    Uncovering the Power of Personality to Shape Income

    The notion of person-environment fit implies that personal and contextual factors interact in influencing important life outcomes. Using data from 8,458 employed individuals, we examined the combined effects of individuals' actual personality traits and jobs’ expert-rated personality demands on earnings. Results from a response surface analysis indicated that the fit between individuals’ actual personality ...

    2017| Jaap J. A. Denissen, Wiebke Bleidorn, Marie Hennecke, Maike Luhmann, Ulrich Orth, Jule Specht, Julia Zimmermann
  • SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    Which preferences cause horizontral sex segregation in fields of studies? Some experimental evidence

    Occupational gender segregation is one of the most persistent gender inequalities in the labor market and one contributing factor is the lack of women in STEM fields. Possible explanations for this pattern are the characteristics of the fields of study (creative-associative versus analytical-systematic thinking style required, the number of mathematics courses, competitive atmosphere), and...

    19.06.2019| Benita Combet, LMU München
  • SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    Residential Segregation and Charitable Giving to Refugees

    A large corpus of literature investigates how the presence of ethnic and economic out-group affects pro-social behavior. However, some long-standing theoretical controversies have not yet been resolved and empirical results are mixed. On the one hand, researchers associated with social identity and group-threat theories argue that out-group presence will drive down the pro-social behavior...

    05.06.2019| Zbignev Gricevic
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    How Far Reaches the Power of Personality? Personality Predictors of Terminal Decline in Well-Being

    Personality is a powerful predictor of central life outcomes, including subjective well-being. Yet, we still know little about how personality manifests in the very last years of life when well-being typically falls rapidly. Here, we investigate whether the Big Five personality traits buffer (or magnify) terminal decline in well-being beyond and in interaction with functioning in key physical and social ...

    In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 116 (2019), 4, S. 634-650 | Swantje Mueller, Jenny Wagner, Gert G. Wagner, Nilam Ram, Denis Gerstorf
  • Diskussionspapiere 1751 / 2018

    Video Recordings in Experiments – Are There Effects on Self-Selection or the Outcome of the Experiment?

    The use of video recordings in experimental economics has become increasingly popular. However, little attention is paid to how this might affect the composition of the participating subjects and the intended treatment effect. We make a first attempt to shed light on these issues and address them in an incentivized face-to-face tax compliance experiment. The experiment contains two dimensions; i) the ...

    2018| Tim Lohse, Salmai Qari
  • SOEPpapers 1045 / 2019

    Wie (in)stabil ist die Lebenszufriedenheit? Eine Sequenzanalyse mit Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP)

    Die vorliegende Studie befasst sich mit der Analyse der Stabilität der Lebenszufriedenheit, auf Basis der Paneldaten des sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP). Benutzt wird das neuartige Konzept der longitudinalen Entropie und so können bereits in der Literatur vorliegende Analysen zur (In)Stabilität der Lebenszufriedenheit ergänzt und vertieft werden. Es wird gezeigt, dass Persönlichkeitseigenschaften, ...

    2019| Laura Schräpler, Jörg-Peter Schräpler, Gert G. Wagner
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