Personality Characteristics, Educational Attainment and Wages: An Economic Analysis Using the British Cohort Study
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Keywords
educational attainment; human capital; personality characteristics;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2014-08-25 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EDU-2014-08-25 (Education)
- NEP-HRM-2014-08-25 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LAB-2014-08-25 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2014-08-25 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-LTV-2014-08-25 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
- NEP-NEU-2014-08-25 (Neuroeconomics)
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