Does it pay to be nice? personality and earnings in the UK

Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1020-1038

  Heineck, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Five Factor Model; Personality; UK; Wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053912276     PISSN: 00197939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001979391106400509     Document Type: Article

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