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Personality and Employment Transitions at Older Ages: Direct and Indirect Effects through Non‐Monetary Job Characteristics
Author(s) -
Angrisani Marco,
Hurd Michael D.,
Meijer Erik,
Parker Andrew M.,
Rohwedder Susann
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/labr.12090
Subject(s) - conscientiousness , big five personality traits , personality , flexibility (engineering) , psychology , salient , association (psychology) , social psychology , demographic economics , economics , management , psychotherapist , extraversion and introversion , artificial intelligence , computer science
We study whether individuals with different personality traits systematically exhibit different retirement trajectories. We find weak direct associations between personality and employment transitions. On the other hand, personality does contribute indirectly to these transitions by moderating the effects of non‐monetary job characteristics. Specifically, workers with different traits are observed to follow different retirement paths when faced with similar physical demands, computer skills requirements, job flexibility, and age discrimination in the workplace. Contrary with other economic domains, conscientiousness does not have the strongest association with retirement; the other components of the Big Five personality traits show more salient patterns.