We use information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and supplementary data sources to examine how cognitive performance, measured at approximately the end of secondary schooling, is related to the labor market outcomes of 20 through 50 year olds. Our estimates control...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird aufgezeigt, dass im heutigen Arbeitsleben, insbesondere bei der Bildung sowie Entwicklung eines Teams, ein hoher Intelligenzquotient (IQ) allein keine Garantie für längerfristigen Geschäftserfolg ist. Das Anforderungsprofil der Mitarbeiter, vor allem der...

This paper provides controlled experimental evidence that striving for pleasures of skill can have negative moral consequences and causally reduce moral values. Subjects perform an IQ-test. They know that each correctly solved question increases the likelihood of moral transgression. In terms of...

Part I. The power of emotional intelligence: Primal leadership -- Resonant leadership -- The neuroanatomy of leadership -- The leadership repertoire -- The dissonant styles: apply with caution -- Part II. Making leaders: Becoming a resonant leader: the five discoveries -- The motivation to...

Verschiedene Studien belegen, dass Führungskräfte 30-50 % ihrer wöchentlichen Arbeitszeit zur Bewältigung von Reibungsverlusten, Konflikten oder Konfliktfolgen einsetzen. Eine der Hauptaufgaben von Führungskräften im Sinne der Effizienzsteigerung ist demnach, Konflikte in ihrem...

Warum viele Köche den Brei verderben : Im neuen Buch von Gunter Dueck geht es der Schwarmintelligenz an den Kragen. Die "Schwarmintelligenz" treibt uns geradewegs ins Verderben. Denn statt einer Konzentration an Intelligenz regiert im Schwarm oft das Prinzip: Viele Köche verderben den Brei....

This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by psychologists to infer traits are based on behaviors, broadly defined. These behaviors are produced from multiple traits interacting with incentives in situations. In general, measures...

Empirical studies of the role of non-cognitive skills in driving economic behavior often rely heavily on the assumption that these skills are stable over the relevant time frame. We analyze the change in a specific non-cognitive skill, i.e. locus of control, in order to directly assess the...

This paper considers a setting in which the acquisition of human capital entails a change of location in social space that causes individuals to revise their comparison groups. Skill levels are viewed as occupational groups, and moving up the skill ladder by acquiring additional human capital,...