Labor Market Returns to Personality: A Job Search Approach to Understanding Gender Gaps
利用德国面板数据，通过工作搜寻与议价模型分析大五人格特质对劳动力市场结果和性别工资差距的影响，发现尽责性、情绪稳定性和宜人性等特质显著影响工资与就业，且人格差异可解释与工作经验差异相当的性别工资差距。
This paper examines the effects of the Big Five personality traits on labor market outcomes and gender wage gaps using a job search and bargaining model with parameters that vary at the individual level. The analysis, based on German panel data, reveals that both cognitive and noncognitive traits significantly influence wages and employment outcomes. Higher conscientiousness and emotional stability and lower agreeableness levels enhance earnings and job stability for both genders. Differences in the distributions of personality characteristics between men and women account for as much of the gender wage gap as do the large differences in labor market experience.