Empar Pons

• University of Valencia

In this study, we investigate whether personality traits contribute towards a better understanding of the reasons for the gender wage gap. We explore whether two of the personality factors put forward by Bowles et al. (2001) as likely to be incentive enhancing in the employer–employee relationship can explain the difference in wages for women and m...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of different personality dimensions on the individual’s labour market choices. In addition, personality types were assessed for differential wage settings. The study is inspired by Bowles et al (2001), who suggested that individual characteristics might be rewarded or punished in the labour...

The literature on inequality among economies has focused mainly on analysing the dispersion of indicators such as current income per capita. In this paper we adopt a different approach from the usual one. In order to analyse inequality and convergence among Spanish regions, we propose to use a measure of permanent income that takes into account the...

This paper studies the implications for inflation dynamics of introducing non-price competition into a New Keynesian model featuring both nominal rigidities, which are in the form of staggered prices, and real rigidities, which are in the form of strategic complementarities in price setting. Under very general assumptions, we show that the presence...

The aim of this paper is to contrast the nature of the schooling effect on earnings in the Spanish labour market in terms of gender. Hungerford and Solon's (Review of Economics and Statistics 69: 175-177, 1987) methodology is used to distinguish between the returns to schooling arising from mere years of schooling as a reflection of their productiv...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of personality dimensions on wage settings. The study was inspired by the model proposed by Bowles, Gintis, and Osborne [American Economic Review 91 (2001) 155], which shows how psychological characteristics may be rewarded or punished in the labour market due to a so-called incentive-enhanc...

The aim of this paper is to contrast the nature of the effect of education, Human Capital or Screening, in the Spanish labour market. We use the Hungerford and Solon methodology to distinguish between the returns to schooling from mere years of schooling as a reflection of their productive-enhancing contribution (human capital) and the returns to s...

This paper studies the ordinary least-squares (OLS) and instrumental variable (IV) estimates of the returns to schooling for male workers in Spain. OLS estimates are often biased due to the endogeneity of schooling, measurement errors or omitted variables. Proper IV estimates correct this bias. The reliability of family background, natural experime...

This paper studies the Ordinary Least-Squared (OLS) and Instrumental Variables (IV) estimates of the returns to schooling for male workers in Spain. OLS estimates are often biased due to the endogeneity of schooling, measurement errors or omitted variables. Proper IV estimates correct this bias. The reliability of family background, natural experim...

En: Revista de educación (Madrid) Madrid 2001, n. 326, septiembre-diciembre; p. 375-393 Se ofrece una revisión de los principales enfoques sobre la Teoría del Capital Humano, según la cual existe una relación positiva entre educación y salarios, frente a la Hipótesis de Señalización basada en dos argumentos: el valor de la información que el nivel...