Youth unemployment and personality traits
Youth unemployment and personality traits
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青年失业与人格特质
DOI：
10.1186/s40172-015-0035-3
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发表时间：
2015
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通讯作者：
I. Walker
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作者：
S. Mendolia;I. Walker
摘要本文探讨了青少年人格特征与教育和劳动力市场选择之间的关系。特别是，我们调查的控制点，努力和勤奋，自尊的青年失业的风险的影响（有时被称为NEET（“不在教育，就业或培训”），假设unconfoundedness。因此，我们的重点是18-20岁的早期辍学者和劳动力市场的辍学者。我们使用匹配方法来控制丰富的青少年和家庭特征，方法是在不混淆的条件下，同时估计多个人格特质的治疗效果（Wooldridge，横断面和面板数据的计量经济学分析，2010）。最后，我们使用Altonji（J Polit Economy 113：151-184，2005）提出的方法，该方法涉及对决定结果的不可观察和可观察之间的相关性以及影响人格的不可观察之间的相关性做出假设。我们的研究结果表明，表现出低努力和勤奋，低自尊和外部控制点的个人估计更有可能辍学和就业。
Jel代码：J60，I10
AbstractThis paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and education and labour market choices. In particular, we investigate the impact of locus of control, effort and diligence, and self-esteem on the risk of youths being unemployed (sometimes referred to as NEET (“Not in Education, Employment or Training”), assuming unconfoundedness. Thus, our focus is on early dropouts from both education and the labour market at age 18–20. We use matching methods to control for a rich set of adolescent and family characteristics by estimating the treatment effects, conditional on unconfoundedness, of multiple personality traits at the same time (Wooldridge, Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data, 2010). Finally, we use the methodology proposed by Altonji (J Polit Economy 113:151–184, 2005) that involves making hypotheses about the correlation between the unobservables and observables that determine the outcomes and the unobservables that influence personality. Our results show that individuals that display low effort and diligence, low self-esteem, and external locus of control are estimated to be more likely to drop out of education and employment.
Jel codes: J60, I10