Burks, Stephen V.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Goette, Lorenz; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
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U.S. trucking industry, for-hire carriage, truckload (TL), driver turnover,
employment duration, survival model …‐based, and employment‐related outcome variables for the same subjects.
We collected three measures of cognitive skills (CS’s): a non‐verbal IQ test (Raven’s
matrices), a quantitative literacy (or “numeracy … control for the effect of variables such as education, alternative income, and
credit score, and we find that the significance and importance of the effects of the IQ index
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