The stability of big-five personality traits

Economics Letters

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 11-15

  Cobb Clark, Deborah A ^a,b   Schurer, Stefanie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Big five personality traits; Non cognitive skills; Stability; Wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 83455177898     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.11.015     Document Type: Article

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