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Why Do Low-Educated Workers Invest Less in Further Training?
Fouarge, Didier; Schils, Trudie; de Grip, Andries - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
willing to participate in training. This lesser willingness to participate in training is driven by economic preferences … (future orientation, preference for leisure), as well as personality traits (locus of control, exam anxiety, and openness to …
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Behavioral Economics of Education
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia; Nielsen, Helena Skyt - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
of education. By now research recognizes cognitive skills (as measured by achievement tests) and soft skills (personality …
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How Does Socio-Economic Status Shape a Child's Personality?
Thomas, Deckers; Armin, Falk; Fabian, Kosse; Hannah, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We …We show that socio-economic status (SES) is a powerful predictor of many facets of a child's personality. The facets of …'s personality by documenting that many dimensions of a child's environment differ systematically by SES: parenting style, quantity …
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How Does Socio-Economic Status Shape a Child's Personality?
Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We …We show that socio-economic status (SES) is a powerful predictor of many facets of a child's personality. The facets of …'s personality by documenting that many dimensions of a child's environment differ systematically by SES: parenting style, quantity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265283
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Testing the Validity of Item Non-Response as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
Kassenboehmer, Sonja C.; Schurer, Stefanie; Leung, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Cognitive and non-cognitive skills are important determinants of labor market outcomes, but are often unobserved. We propose a proxy for these skills derived from item non-response information and a procedure to test its validity. Exploiting a unique data-collection feature of an Australian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011195812
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Frühkindliche Bildung und spätere kognitive und nichtkognitive Fähigkeiten: deutsche und internationale Evidenz
Schlotter, Martin; Wößmann, Ludger - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly … 79 (2010) 3, pp. 99-120
Preschool Education and Later Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills: German and International Evidence - We present international and German evidence on the association between preschool education and later cognitive and non-cognitive skills based on data from TIMSS, PISA, PIRLS, and the DJI...
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Fostering and Measuring Skills: Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success
Kautz, Tim; Heckman, James J.; Diris, Ron; ter Weel, Bas; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills: personality traits, goals, motivations, and … preferences that are valued in the labor market, in school, and in many other domains. Their predictive power rivals that of …
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The making of a manager: evidence from military officer training
Grönqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2015
We show that officer training during the Swedish military service has a strong positive effect on the probability to attain a managerial position later in life. The most intense type of officer training increases the probability of becoming a civilian manager by about 5 percentage points, or 75...
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The Making of a Manager: Evidence from Military Officer Training
Grönqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015
We show that officer training during the Swedish military service has a strong positive effect on the probability to attain a managerial position later in life. The most intense type of officer training increases the probability of becoming a civilian manager by about 5 percentage points, or 75...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276392
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A conceptual typology of multitasking behavior and polychronicity preferences
Circella, Giovanni; Mokhtarian, Patricia L.; Poff, Laura K. - In: electronic International Journal of Time Use Research 9 (2012) 1, pp. 59-107
This paper introduces a conceptual framework for the systematic analysis of multitasking behavior, and the corresponding degree of preference for doing multiple activities simultaneously (polychronicity). A typology of multitasking is developed along the two dimensions “share of time” and...
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