Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/37531 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010: Ökonomie der Familie - Session: Skills, Risks, and Wages No. E10-V1
Publisher: 
Verein für Socialpolitik, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper establishes that individuals with an internal locus of control, i.e. who believe that reinforcement in life comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive effect only translates into labor income via the channel of education: once schooling is controlled for, the impact of locus of control on wages vanishes. Factor structure models are implemented on an augmented data set coming from two different samples. By so doing, we are able to tackle measurement error and endogeneity problems that plague many studies relying on usual least squares approaches.
Subjects: 
locus of control
wages
latent factor model
data set combination
JEL: 
C31
J24
J31
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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