Personality traits and unemployment: Evidence from longitudinal data
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Keywords
Personality; Unemployment; Stability of the Big Five personality traits; Reverse causality; Errors-in-variables bias;JEL classification:
- J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
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