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Firms and skills : the evolution of worker sorting

Håkanson, Christina; Lindqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2015

We document a significant increase in the sorting of workers by cognitive and non-cognitive skills across Swedish firms between 1986 and 2008. The weight of the evidence suggests that the increase in sorting is due to stronger complementarities between worker skills and technology. In...

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Women do not play their aces : the consequences of shying away

Claussen, Jörg; Czibor, Eszter; Praag, Mirjam van - 2015

The underrepresentation of women at the top of hierarchies is often explained by gender differences in preferences. We …

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Culture, feedback, and gender in education

Kinne, Lavinia - 2023

. Chapters 2 and 3 show that patience and risk-taking as intertemporal preferences are closely related to differences in student …

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Occupational attainment and earnings in Southeast Asia : the role of non-cognitive skills

Bühler, Dorothee Christine; Sharma, Rasadhika; Stein, … - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 67 (2020)

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Locus of control and low-wage mobility

Schnitzlein, Daniel D.; Stephani, Jens - 2013

We investigate whether non-cognitive skills - in particular Locus of Control - are important determinants of the labour market processes at the low-wage margin. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate dynamic multinomial logit models with random effects and investigate...

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(How) do non-cognitive skills programs improve adolescent school achievement? : experimental evidence

Martins, Pedro S. - 2017

Non-cognitive skills programs may be an important policy option to improve the academic outcomes of adolescents. In this paper, we evaluate experimentally the EPIS program, which is based on bi-weekly individual or small-group non-cognitive mediation short meetings with low-performing students....

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The timing of puberty and gender differences in educational achievement

Koerselman, Kristian; Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2017

In this paper, we study the effect of the timing of puberty on educational achievement and examine to what extent the gender differences in the timing of puberty can explain gender differences in achievement. We use British cohort data that combine information on pubertal development with test...

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Leadership at school: Does the gender of siblings matter?

Brunello, Giorgio; De Paola, Maria - 2012

Having leader positions at school, as well as participating in sports and clubs helps promoting valuable non cognitive skills, including leadership, self-discipline, motivation, competitiveness and self-esteem. We use survey data from the US and Japan to investigate whether these behaviors in...

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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 …-age population with well-established measures of cognitive skills and personality traits, I find that accounting for personality and … also demonstrate that personality is one of the contributors to the risk of being overeducated among workers aged 18 …

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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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