TY - UNPB

T1 - The role of psychological traits for the gender gap in full-time employment and wages: evidence from Germany

AU - Braakmann, Nils

N1 - Literaturverz. S. 17 - 20

PY - 2009

Y1 - 2009

N2 - This paper shows that differences in various non-cognitive traits, specifically the "big fiveʺ, positive and negative reciprocity, locus of control and risk aversion, contribute to gender inequalities in wages and employment. Using the 2004 and 2005 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel, evidence from regression and decomposition techniques suggests that gender differences in psychological traits are more important for inequalities in wages than in employment. Differences in the big fiveʺ, in particular in agreeableness, conscientiousness and neurocitism matter for both wages and employment. For the latter, the results also show a large effect of differences in external locus of control.

AB - This paper shows that differences in various non-cognitive traits, specifically the "big fiveʺ, positive and negative reciprocity, locus of control and risk aversion, contribute to gender inequalities in wages and employment. Using the 2004 and 2005 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel, evidence from regression and decomposition techniques suggests that gender differences in psychological traits are more important for inequalities in wages than in employment. Differences in the big fiveʺ, in particular in agreeableness, conscientiousness and neurocitism matter for both wages and employment. For the latter, the results also show a large effect of differences in external locus of control.

KW - Economics

KW - gender wage gap

KW - non-cognitive traits

KW - decomposition

M3 - Working papers

T3 - Working paper series in economics

BT - The role of psychological traits for the gender gap in full-time employment and wages: evidence from Germany

PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg

CY - Lüneburg

ER -