Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/28230 
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Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series in Economics No. 112
Publisher: 
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Lüneburg
Abstract: 
This paper shows that differences in various non-cognitive traits, specifically the big five”, positive and negative reciprocity, locus of control and risk aversion, contribute to gender inequalities in wages and employment. Using the 2004 and 2005 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel, evidence from regression and decomposition techniques suggests that gender differences in psychological traits are more important for inequalities in wages than in employment. Differences in the big five”, in particular in agreeableness, conscientiousness and neurocitism matter for both wages and employment. For the latter, the results also show a large effect of differences in external locus of control.
Subjects: 
Gender wage gap
non-cognitive traits
decomposition
JEL: 
J24
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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