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Gregariousness, interactive jobs and wages

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  • Pfeiffer, Friedhelm
  • Schulz, Nico Johannes

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Gregariousness is an important aspect of human life with implications for labour market outcomes. The paper examines, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and associated wage differentials. Our empirical findings with samples from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) demonstrate that gregarious people more often work in jobs with social interaction. Furthermore, females tend to work more often in interactive jobs compared to males. There is evidence that working in an interactive job is associated with a compensating negative wage differential of 7 percent for women and non for men. Implications for wage policy are discussed.

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  • Pfeiffer, Friedhelm & Schulz, Nico Johannes, 2011. "Gregariousness, interactive jobs and wages," ZEW Discussion Papers 11-001, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:zewdip:11001
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    1. Brussig, Martin & Kirsch, Johannes & Mosler, Bettina & Baser, Oya & Pfeiffer, Friedhelm & Ivanov, Boris & Pohlan, Laura & Pagels, Nils & Gabler, Andrea & Kotlenga, Sandra & Nägele, Barbara & Puhe, Hen, 2018. "Evaluation des Bundesprogramms "Soziale Teilhabe am Arbeitsmarkt" (Zb1-04812-2/31): Zweiter Zwischenbericht," ZEW Expertises, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, number 179951.
    2. Mathias Kloss & Thomas Kirschstein & Steffen Liebscher & Martin Petrick, 2019. "Robust Productivity Analysis: An application to German FADN data," Papers 1902.00678, arXiv.org, revised Feb 2019.

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    • J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials

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