The role of preferences, attitudes, and personality traits in labor market matching

Michael Haylock and Patrick Kampkötter

Economics Letters, 2019, vol. 185, issue C

Abstract: We provide new evidence of worker–firm matching based on preferences, attitudes and personality traits using new, representative matched employer–employee data from Germany. Time-constant firm characteristics explain a significant proportion of total variance in a series of outcome variables commonly applied in behavioral economics research. Hence, behavioral characteristics play an important, yet under researched, role in the labor market matching process.

Keywords: Preferences; Attitudes; Personality; Sorting; Matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D90 D91 J01 M50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2019.108718

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