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  • Diskussionspapiere 1157 / 2011

    A Critique and Reframing of Personality in Labour Market Theory: Locus of Control and Labour Market Outcomes

    This article critically examines the theoretical arguments that underlie the literature linking personality traits to economic outcomes and provides empirical evidence indicating that labour market outcomes influence personality outcomes. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the extent to which gender differences occur in the processes by which highly positive and negative ...

    2011| Eileen Trzcinski, Elke Holst
  • SOEPpapers 369 / 2011

    Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed

    This paper systematically investigates whether different kinds of personality characteristics influence entrepreneurial development. On the basis of a large, representative household panel survey, we examine the extent to which the Big Five traits and further personality characteristics, which are more specifically related to entrepreneurial tasks, influence entry into self-employment and survival ...

    2011| Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
  • Externe Monographien

    Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed

    Bonn: IZA, 2011, 61 S.
    (Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 5566)
    | Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
  • Diskussionspapiere 1088 / 2010

    Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed: Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?

    In this paper we study the economic effects of risk attitudes, time preferences, trust and reciprocity while we compare natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between the two groups mainly in terms of risk attitudes and positive reciprocity. Second generation migrants have a significantly higher willingness to take risks ...

    2010| Amelie F. Constant, Annabelle Krause, Ulf Rinne, Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • SOEPpapers 524 / 2012

    Merkmale und Einschätzungen der Bewohner von Wohnungsgenossenschaften: eine Charakterisierung auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels

    2012| Theresia Theurl, Jochen Wicher, Christina Cappenberg
  • SOEPpapers 795 / 2015

    The Causal Effect of Paternal Unemployment on Children's Personality

    Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that paternal unemployment has a surprisingly positive causal effect on the "Big 5" personality traits of children aged 17 to 25. In particular, our results from longitudinal value-added models for personality suggest that paternal unemployment makes children significantly more conscientious and less neurotic. Our results ...

    2015| Viola Angelini, Marco Bertoni, Luca Corazzini
  • SOEPpapers 623 / 2013

    Intrinsic Motivations of Public Sector Employees: Evidence for Germany

    We examine differences in altruism and laziness between public sector employees and private sector employees. Our theoretical model predicts that the likelihood of public sector employment increases with a worker·s altruism, and increases or decreases with a workers laziness depending on his altruism. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we find that public sector employees are significantly ...

    2013| Robert Dur, Robin Zoutenbier
  • Externe Monographien

    The Impact of Education on Personality: Evidence from a German High School Reform

    This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine to eight years in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the overall curriculum unchanged. This enabled ...

    Bonn: IZA, 2014, 51 S.
    (Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 8139)
    | Sarah Dahmann, Silke Anger
  • SOEPpapers 723 / 2014

    Labor Market Integration of German Immigrants and Their Children: Does Personality Matter?

    Educational attainment, length of stay, differences in national background and language skills play an acknowledged important role for the integration of immigrants. But integration is also a social process, which suggests that psychological factors are relevant. This paper explores whether and to what extent immigrants and their children need to believe in their ability to control their own success. ...

    2014| Anna-Elisabeth Thum
  • SOEPpapers 658 / 2014

    The Impact of Education on Personality: Evidence from a German High School Reform

    This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine to eight years in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the overall curriculum unchanged. This enabled ...

    2014| Sarah Dahmann, Silke Anger
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