Examining the Effect of Psychological Traits on Earnings and the Gender Wage Gap within a Young Sample of U.S. Employees

This paper examines the effect of psychological traits on earnings and furthermore whether it helps explain the gender wage gap. Public-use data collected from The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health is used to evaluate the impact on earnings on seven psychological factors: masculine tr...

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Main Author: May, Marika
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2011
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Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/144
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1160&context=cmc_theses