Estimating the effect of personality on male and female earnings

被引:314
作者
Mueller, Gerrit [1 ]
Plug, Erik
机构
[1] Ctr European Econ Res, Dept Labor Econ Human Resources & Social Policy, ZEW, Mannheim, Germany
[2] Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam Sch Econ, Res Ctr Educ & Labor, NL-1012 WX Amsterdam, Netherlands
来源
INDUSTRIAL & LABOR RELATIONS REVIEW | 2006年 / 60卷 / 01期
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10.1177/001979390606000101
中图分类号
F24 [劳动经济];
学科分类号
020106 ; 020207 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;
摘要
The authors adopt the Five-Factor Model of personality structure to explore how personality affected the earnings of a large group of men and women who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957 and were re-interviewed in 1992. All five basic traits-extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience-had statistically significant positive or negative earnings effects, and together they appear to have had effects comparable to those commonly found for cognitive ability. Among men, substantial earnings advantages were associated with antagonism (the obverse of agreeableness), emotional stability (the obverse of neuroticism), and openness to experience; among women, with conscientiousness and openness to experience. Of the five traits, the evidence indicates that agreeableness had the greatest influence on gender differences in earnings: men were considerably more antagonistic (non-agreeable) than women, on average, and men alone were rewarded for that trait.
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