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Worker personality: Another skill bias beyond education in the digital age

Bode, Eckhardt; Brunow, Stephan; Ott, Ingrid; Sorgner, Alina

Abstract:

We present empirical evidence suggesting that technological progress in the digital age will be biased not only with respect to skills acquired through education but also with respect to noncognitive skills (personality). We measure the direction of technological change by estimated future digitalization probabilities of occupations, and noncognitive skills by the Big Five personality traits from several German worker surveys. Even though we control extensively for education and experience, we find that workers characterized by strong openness and emotional stability tend to be less susceptible to digitalization. Traditional indicators of human capital thus measure workers’ skill endowments only imperfectly.


Volltext §
DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000062017
Cover der Publikation
Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre (ECON)
Publikationstyp Forschungsbericht/Preprint
Publikationsjahr 2016
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 2190-9806
urn:nbn:de:swb:90-620173
KITopen-ID: 1000062017
Verlag Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Umfang 43 S.
Serie Working paper series in economics ; 98
Schlagwörter Worker personality, Noncognitive skills, Digital transformation, Direction of technical change, Germany
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