Lenton, P (2014) Personality characteristics, educational attainment and wages: an economic analysis using the British cohort study. Working Paper. The Sheffield Economic Research Paper Series, 201401 . ISSN 1749-8368
Abstract
We look at the influence of personality traits and cognitive ability on both educational attainment and on the wages of individuals in the UK labour market at age 33 using the British Cohort Study. We control for a new cluster of nine personality characteristics, some of which we consider likely to influence labour market outcomes. We find that some personality characteristics have significant influence on the acquisition of educational qualifications, in particular internal and external locus of control, conscientiousness and extroversion. Our findings on the extrovert-introvert dimension of personality are paradoxical: we find that males with extrovert personalities have a significantly reduced probability of gaining degree level education, but within the labour market males are rewarded for this characteristic.
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Economics (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 03 Sep 2014 09:21 |
Last Modified: | 03 Sep 2014 09:21 |
Published Version: | http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/economics/research/serp... |
Status: | Published |
Series Name: | The Sheffield Economic Research Paper Series |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:80431 |