Metadata
- Author: Cepr
- Full Title:: The Role of Personality Traits in Shaping Economic Returns Amid Technological Change
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/role-personality-traits-shaping-economic-returns-amid-technological-change
- Read date:: 2025-02-27
Highlights
• Intellectual tenacity encompasses traits like analytical thinking, persistence, initiative, and innovation. This dimension reflects the ability to tackle non-routine, problem-solving tasks requiring autonomy and effort. • Social adjustment includes traits like emotion regulation, cooperation, and stress tolerance. This dimension captures interpersonal skills vital for roles involving face-to-face interactions and empathy. (View Highlight)
four major results: (View Highlight)
A wage premium for intellectual tenacity. (View Highlight)
For occupations emphasising traits like cooperation and stress tolerance (e.g. flight attendants, special education teachers), we find little to no wage premium. In some specifications, social adjustment is negatively associated with wages (View Highlight)