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Wage Effects of On-the-Job Training : A Meta-Analysis

Haelermans, Carla - 2011

A meta-analysis is used to study the average wage effects of on-the-job training. This study shows that the average … reported wage effect of on-the-job training, corrected for publication bias, is 2.6 per cent per course. The analyses reveal a … substantial heterogeneity between training courses, while wage effects reported in studies based on instrumental variables and …

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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion

Borghans, Lex - 2009

This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing literature relating economic preference parameters to psychological measures by asking whether variations in preference parameters among persons, and in particular across genders,...

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What Grades and Achievement Tests Measure

Borghans, Lex - 2016

Intelligence quotient (IQ), grades, and scores on achievement tests are widely used as measures of cognition, yet the correlations among them are far from perfect. This paper uses a variety of data sets to show that personality and IQ predict grades and scores on achievement tests. Personality...

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Fostering and Measuring Skills : Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success

Kautz, Tim - 2014

This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and non-cognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills: personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in...

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Parental Preferences for Primary School Characteristics

Borghans, Lex - 2014

Free school choice has often been argued to be a tide that lifts school quality through increased competition. This paper analyzes the underlying assumption that school quality is an important choice criterion for parents. Using a large and representative data set of over 15,000 Dutch primary...

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Interpersonal Styles and Labor Market Outcomes

Borghans, Lex - 2006

This paper develops a framework to understand the role of interpersonal interactions in the labor market including task assignment and wages. Effective interpersonal interactions involve caring, to establish cooperation, and at the same time directness, to communicate in an unambiguous way. The...

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The Role of Noncognitive Skills in Explaining Cognitive Test Scores

Borghans, Lex - 2006

This paper examines whether noncognitive skills - measured both by personality traits and economic preference parameters - influence cognitive tests performance. The basic idea is that noncognitive skills might affect the effort people put into a test to obtain good results. We experimentally...

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Skill Transferability, Regret and Mobility

Borghans, Lex - 2006

After graduation many students start working in sectors not related to their field of study or participate in training targeted at work in other sectors. In this paper, we look at mobility immediately after graduation from the perspective that educational choices have been made when these pupils...

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Measuring and Interpreting Trends in the Division of Labour in the Netherlands

Akcomak, Semih - 2011

of employment in the Netherlands. Changes in the division of labour occur at three different levels: the level of the …. These developments explain to a considerable extent changes in the structure of employment. Especially at the spatial level …

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Default Options and Training Participation

Borghans, Lex - 2013

This paper analyzes whether defaults affect the choice for courses followed at work. In addition, we analyze whether the size of the default effect varies with employees' personality and skill-deficiencies. We perform an experiment in which workers are hypothetically offered three courses which...

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