The role of preferences, attitudes, and personality traits in labor market matching.

We provide new evidence of worker–firm matching based on preferences, attitudes and personality traits using new, representative matched employer–employee data from Germany. Time-constant firm characteristics explain a significant proportion of total variance in a series of outcome variables commonly applied in behavioral economics research. Hence, behavioral characteristics play an important, yet under researched, role in the labor market matching process. • We document worker–firm matching based on preferences and personality. • We use representative matched employer–employee data from Germany. • Firm fixed effects largest explanatory factor of series of behavioral outcomes. • Preferences and personality play important role in labor market matching. • Potential channels are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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