Whoever You Want Me to Be: Personality and Incentives
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- McGee, Andrew & McGee, Peter, 2020. "Whoever You Want Me to Be: Personality and Incentives," IZA Discussion Papers 13809, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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Keywords
personality; measurement; hiring; screening; experiments;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- M50 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2024-02-05 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2024-02-05 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2024-02-05 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-NEU-2024-02-05 (Neuroeconomics)
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