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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532546
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Behavioral economics of education
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia; Nielsen, Helena Skyt - 2014
of education. By now research recognizes cognitive skills (as measured by achievement tests) and soft skills (personality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408879
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014327355
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Noncognitive skills in economics: Models, measurement, and empirical evidence
Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2009
There is an increasing economic literature considering personality. This paper provides an overview on the role of …. Based on the relevant literature from different disciplines, the common psychometric measures used to assess personality are … discussed. A recently proposed theoretical framework of human capital production takes personality explicitly into account. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299499
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Noncognitive skills in economics: Models, measurement, and empirical evidence
Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2011
There is an increasing economic literature considering personality traits as a source of individual differences in … disciplines, the common psychometric measures used to assess personality are discussed and critical assumptions for their … application are highlighted. We sketch current research that aims at incorporating personality traits into economic models of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307839
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Microeconomic models with latent variables : applications of measurement error models in empirical industrial organization and labor economics
Hu, Yingyao - 2015
This paper reviews recent developments in nonparametric identi.cation of mea- surement error models and their applications in applied microeconomics, in particular, in empirical industrial organization and labor economics. Measurement error models describe mappings from a latent distribution to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469057
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Microeconomic Models with Latent Variables : Applications of Measurement Error Models in Empirical Industrial Organization and Labor Economics
Hu, Yingyao - 2015
This paper reviews recent developments in nonparametric identification of measurement error models and their applications in applied microeconomics, in particular, in empirical industrial organization and labor economics. Measurement error models describe mappings from a latent distribution to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029599
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Skill formation, temporary disadvantage and elite education
Hjertstrand, Per; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2020
Elite skills have become crucial in today’s superstar economy. We develop a multi-period skill-formation model where we show that individuals with temporary disadvantages must exert greater effort to gain access to elite education. This “underdog-incentive effect” implies that “educated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012298682
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Skill Formation, Temporary Disadvantage and Elite Education
Hjertstrand, Per; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2021
Elite skills have become crucial in today’s superstar economy. We develop a multi-period skillformation model where we show that individuals with temporary disadvantages must exert greater effort to gain access to elite education. This “underdog-incentive effect” implies that “educated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315204
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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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