Emotional stability and firm productivity. Evidence from German matched employer-employee data

Giorgio Brunello and Caroline Neuber-Pohl

No 26025, RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series from ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin)

Abstract: Using matched employer-employee data for Germany, we estimate firm production functions augmented with workers' personality traits. We find that emotional stability is the only trait that positively affects firm productivity. Its effect shows up mainly in large firms operating with a higher than median share of educated workers.

Keywords: personality traits; firm productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-01
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