Does personality matter?: the impact of the big five on the migrant and gender wage gaps

Hanna Brenzel and Marie-Christine Laible
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Hanna Brenzel: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany
Marie-Christine Laible: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany

No 201626, IAB-Discussion Paper from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]

Abstract: "We investigate whether the Big Five Personality Dimensions contribute to explaining gender and migrant wage gaps by using a linked employer-employee dataset. We expand the scarce literature concerning personality traits and gender wage gaps in Germany and we provide first evidence for the relationship between the Big Five and the migrant wage gap. Our results reveal that the genders differ in their average personality traits, as do migrants and natives. Further, we find significant associations between the Big Five and wages. The magnitude of this relationship varies across the gender and the migratory status. The results of Oaxaca-Blinder wage decompositions suggest that the Big Five significantly contribute to explaining gender and migrant wage gaps." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Bundesrepublik Deutschland; ausländische Arbeitnehmer; Auswirkungen; Einkommenseffekte; Einwanderer; erwerbstätige Frauen; erwerbstätige Männer; geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren; Inländer; Lohnunterschied; Persönlichkeitsmerkmale; IAB-Datensatz Linked Personnel Panel; 2011-2012 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J16 J24 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48 pages
Date: 2016
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-hme, nep-ltv and nep-ure
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Published in/as: International Migration Review, doi:10.1177/01979183211037315

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