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Personality and Labour Market Income: Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Lea PulkkinenKatja KokkoJaakko PehkonenJutta Viinikainen

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Labour economicsExtraversion and introversionLongitudinal datamedia_common.quotation_subjectGeography Planning and DevelopmentUnemploymentEconomicsPersonalityAssociation (psychology)Work experienceDemographymedia_common

description

This study contributes to the literature on how personality is rewarded in the labour market by examining the relationship between personality and labour market income. Our results suggest that adulthood extraversion is positively associated with income when education, work experience, and unemployment history, measured prospectively from longitudinal data, are controlled for. In addition, childhood constructiveness indicating active and well-controlled behaviour has a positive association with income in adulthood.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2010-05-18LABOUR
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9914.2010.00477.x