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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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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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The graduate wage and earnings premia and the role of non-cognitive skills

Buchmueller, Gerda; Walker, Ian - 2020

Estimates of the graduate earnings premium typically do not allow for the effect of non-cognitive skills. Since such skills are unobservable in most datasets there is a concern that existing estimates of the graduate premium are contaminated by selection on such unobservables. We use data on a...

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Employers' skills requirements in the Austrian labour market : on the relative importance of ICT, cognitive and non-cognitive skills over the past 15 years

Leitner, Sandra M.; Reiter, Oliver - 2020

This paper analyses job advertisements to identify the particular skills, abilities and characteristics that are in demand on the Austrian labour market. It takes a novel approach and uses information extracted from over 1.5 million job advertisements over the past 15 years from Austria's...

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Artificial intelligence and high-skilled work : evidence from analysts

Grennan, Jillian; Michaely, Roni - 2020

Policymakers fear artificial intelligence (AI) will disrupt labor markets, especially for high-skilled workers. We investigate this concern using novel, task-specific data for security analysts. Exploiting variation in AI's power across stocks, we show analysts with portfolios that are more...

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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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The returns to personality traits across the wage distribution

Collischon, Matthias - 2017

effects of certain personality traits (agreeableness, neuroticism and risk taking) across the wage distribution for full …

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When workers' skills become unbundled : some empirical consequences for sorting and wages

Nordström Skans, Oskar; Choné, Philippe; Kramarz, Francis - 2022

This empirical paper analyzes labor market sorting across establishments using Swedish register data on cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. We draw on the theoretical foundations of Chone' and Kramarz (2021), in which workers are endowed with sets of multidimensional skills that need to be...

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