Search Results - subject:"Non cognitive skills"

Limited self-knowledge and survey response behavior

Falk, Armin; Neuber, Thomas Erik; Strack, Philipp - 2021

We study response behavior in surveys and show how the explanatory power of selfreports can be improved. First, we develop a choice model of survey response behavior under the assumption that the respondent has imperfect self-knowledge about her individual characteristics. In panel data, the...

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Intergenerational educational mobility - the role of non-cognitive skills

Adamecz, Anna; Henderson, Morag; Shure, Nikki - 2021

looks at the role of non-cognitive skills in the university participation of this disadvantaged group in England. We find … levels of non-cognitive skills, specifically locus of control, academic self-concept, work ethic, and self-esteem, in … non-cognitive skills helps potential first in family university students to compensate for their relative disadvantage …

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Is being competitive always an advantage? : degrees of competitiveness, gender, and premature work contract termination

Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2021

In this study, we examine the influence of competitiveness on the stability of labour relations using the example of premature employment and training contract termination in the apprenticeship education sector. The paper extends the small but growing evidence on the external relevance of...

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Is being competitive always an advantage? : degrees of competitiveness, gender, and premature work contract termination

Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2021

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Is being competitive always an advantage? : degrees of competitiveness, gender, and premature work contract termination

Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2021

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Overeducation and wages : the role of cognitive skills and personality traits

Palczyńska, Marta - In: Baltic journal of economics 21 (2021) 1, pp. 85-111

This article investigates the extent to which personality traits and cognitive skills can be seen as potential determinants of overeducation, and can explain the overeducation wage penalty. Using a representative survey of the Polish working-age population with well-established measures of...

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Ethnic mixing in early childhood: evidence from a randomized field experiment and a structural model

Boucher, Vincent; Tumen, Semih; Vlassopoulos, Michael; … - 2021

We study the social integration of ethnic minority children in the context of an early childhood program conducted in Turkey aimed at preparing 5-year-old native and Syrian refugee children for primary school. We randomly assign children to groups with varying ethnic composition and find that...

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The returns to non-cognitive skills : a meta-analysis

Cabus, Sofie; Napierała, Joanna; Carretero, Stephanie - 2021

This paper discusses the returns to non-cognitive skills based on results of a meta-analysis. The systematic literature … review of articles published in the last decade and analysing labour market outcomes and non-cognitive skills allowed us to … extract more than 300 estimates linking earnings and non-cognitive skills, most often measured by the Big Five inventory. The …

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Can non-cognitive skills explain the gender wage gap in Russia: an unconditional quantile regression approach

Rozhkov, Ksenia V.; Yemelina, Natalya; Roshchin, Sergey Yu. - 2021

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The bilingual gap in children's language, emotional, and pro-social development

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Harmon, Colm; Staneva, Anita - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 10 (2021) 1, pp. 1-41

In this paper we examine whether - conditional on other child endowments and family inputs - bilingual children achieve different language, emotional, and pro-social developmental outcomes. Our data, which allow us to analyze children's development in a dynamic framework, are extracted from the...

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