Personality and Labour Market Income: Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Jutta Viinikainen, Katja Kokko, Lea Pulkkinen and Jaakko Pehkonen

LABOUR, 2010, vol. 24, issue 2, 201-220

Abstract: This study contributes to the literature on how personality is rewarded in the labour market by examining the relationship between personality and labour market income. Our results suggest that adulthood extraversion is positively associated with income when education, work experience, and unemployment history, measured prospectively from longitudinal data, are controlled for. In addition, childhood constructiveness indicating active and well‐controlled behaviour has a positive association with income in adulthood.

Date: 2010
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