Personality and Labour Market Income: Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Labour

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 201-220

  Viinikainen, Jutta ^a   Kokko, Katja ^a   Pulkkinen, Lea ^a   Pehkonen, Jaakko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCOME DISTRIBUTION; LABOR MARKET; UNEMPLOYMENT; WORKING CONDITIONS;

EID: 77954156223     PISSN: 11217081     EISSN: 14679914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2010.00477.x     Document Type: Article

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