Demand for Personality Traits, Tasks, and Sorting
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Keywords
job ads; sorting; tasks; personality; employer demand;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
- J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- J33 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
- M51 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Firm Employment Decisions; Promotions
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HRM-2023-12-04 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LMA-2023-12-04 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-NEU-2023-12-04 (Neuroeconomics)
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