Abstract
This paper considers the impact of personality traits on the change of the gender wage gap. Using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we first explore how personality traits affect wage growth rates. Then, a decomposition analysis is performed to analyse the dynamic effects of personality traits on the change of the gender wage gap over time. Our empirical results indicate that gender differences in conscientiousness and emotional stability lead to a widening of the wage gap over time. By contrast, gender differences in extraversion lead to a narrowing of the wage gap over time.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Bulletin of Economic Research |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 20-34 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| ISSN | 0307-3378 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 01.2018 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2017 Board of Trustees of the Bulletin of Economic Research and John Wiley & Sons Ltd
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 5 Gender Equality
Research areas and keywords
- Management studies
- decomposition
- gender wage gap
- personality traits
- wage growth
- J16
- J31
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Economics and Econometrics
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