Labour Status of the General US Population and a High IQ Population
Abstract
The labourforce status of members of American Mensa (a high IQ group) is examined. Compared with a general US sample, the Mensans′ labour‐force participation rate was found to be higher, while the percentage not in the labourforce was lower. Multinomial logit estimation indicates that demographic variables have greater influence on the odds of individuals being in the various labourforce categories for the general US sample than for Mensans. Differences in labourforce patterns for Mensans versus the US sample are due more to differences in characteristics than to underlying behavioural differences.
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Citation
Leppel, K. (1991), "Labour Status of the General US Population and a High IQ Population", International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 12 No. 4, pp. 11-17. https://doi.org/10.1108/01437729110001077
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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