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

Michael Haylock and Patrick Kampkötter

No 124, University of Tübingen Working Papers in Business and Economics from University of Tuebingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, School of Business and Economics

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: 10.15496/publikation-34813

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