Occupational choice. Personality matters.

Autor/inn/en	Ham, Roger; Junankar, Pramod N.; Wells, Robert
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Occupational choice. Personality matters. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Berufswahl. Die Persönlichkeit spielt eine Rolle.
Quelle	Bonn (2009), 36 S.; 334 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA discussion paper. 4105
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Soziale Herkunft; Australien; Berufswahl; Soziale Herkunft; Humankapital; Sozialer Status; Humankapital; Berufswahl; Angestelltenberuf; Arbeitspapier; Geschlechtsspezifik; Australien
Abstract	"In modern societies, people are often classified as 'White Collar' or 'Blue Collar' workers: that classification not only informs social scientists about the kind of work that they do, but also about their social standing, their social interests, their family ties, and their approach to life in general. This analysis will examine the effect of an individual's psychometrically derived personality traits and status of their parents on the probability of attaining a white collar occupation over the baseline category of a blue collar occupation; controlling for human capital and other factors. The paper uses data from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey to estimate a random effects probit model to capture the effects on the probability of being in a white collar occupation. The results are then examined using the average marginal effects of the different conditioning variables over the whole sample. The analysis confirms the previous findings of human capital theory, but finds that personality and parental status also have significant effects on occupational outcomes. The results suggest that the magnitude of the average marginal effect of parental status is small and the effect of the personality trait 'conscientiousness' is large and rivals that of education. Finally, estimates of separate models for males and females indicate that effects differ between the genders for key variables, with personality traits in females having a relatively larger effect on their occupational outcomes due to the diminished effects of education." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Befragung; Längsschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 2001 bis 2007. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2009/4