Interpersonal styles and labor market outcomes
By: Lex Borghans, Bas ter Weel, Bruce A. Weinberg.
Contributors: Borghans, Lex.; Weel, Bas ter.; Weinberg,Bruce A.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 12846; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 12846.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "This paper develops a framework to understand the role of interpersonal interactions in the labor market including task assignment and wages.  Effective interpersonal interactions involve caring, to establish cooperation, and at the same time directness, to communicate in an unambiguous way.  The ability to perform these tasks varies with personality and the importance of these tasks varies across jobs.  An assignment model shows that people are most productive in jobs that match their style and earn less when they have to shift to other jobs.  An oversupply of one attribute relative to the other reduces wages for people who are better with the attribute in greater supply.  We present evidence that youth sociability affects job assignment in adulthood.  The returns to interpersonal interactions are consistent with the assignment model"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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