How important is your personality? Labor market returns to personality for women in the US and UK

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 827-841

  Groves, Melissa Osborne ^a  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Labor; Personality; Wages; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844484307     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2005.03.001     Document Type: Article

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