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Can Fixed-Term Contracts Put Low Skilled Youth on a Better Career Path? Evidence from Spain
Garacia-Perez, J. Ignacio - 2016
By reducing the commitment made by employers, fixed-term contracts can help low-skilled youth find a first job. However, the long-term impact of fixed-term contracts on these workers' careers may be negative. Using Spanish social security data, we analyze the impact of a large liberalization in...
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Social Interactions and the Salience of Social Identity
McLeish, Kendra N.; Oxoby, Robert J. - 2021
In this paper, we explore the effect of identity salience on behavior in a simple social interaction. Specifically, we compare behavior in a ultimatum game across three treatments: priming subjects with a shared identity, priming subjects with an identity distinct from those with whom they will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325108
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Self-Selection in Migration and Returns to Unobservable Skills
Dostie, Benoit; Léger, Pierre Thomas - 2006
patterns of Canadian physicians. We choose this particular group for several reasons including the fact that they are paid on a …-productivity physicians (based on unobservables) are more likely to migrate to provinces where the productivity premium is greater, while low …-productivity physicians are more likely to migrate to areas where the productivity premium is lower. These results are consistent with a …
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The Stability of Big-Five Personality Traits
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011
We use a large, nationally-representative sample of working-age adults to demonstrate that personality (as measured by the Big Five) is stable over a four-year period. Average personality changes are small and do not vary substantially across age groups. Intra-individual personality change is...
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Non-Cognitive Skills and Personality Traits : Labour Market Relevance and Their Development in Education & Training Systems
Brunello, Giorgio - 2011
This paper reviews the empirical economic literature on the relative importance of non cognitive skills for school and labour market outcomes, with a focus on Europe. There is evidence that high cognitive test scores are likely to result not only from high cognitive skills but also from high...
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Critical Periods During Childhood and Adolescence : A Study of Adult Height Among Immigrant Siblings
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2009
We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For this we use data on families migrating into Sweden from countries that are mostly poorer, with less healthy conditions. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation...
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Estimating the Relationship between Skill and Overconfidence
Feld, Jan - 2017
The Dunning–Kruger effect states that low performers vastly overestimate their performance while high performers more accurately assess their performance. Researchers usually interpret this empirical pattern as evidence that the low skilled are vastly overconfident while the high skilled are...
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Non-Cognitive Child Outcomes and Universal High Quality Child Care
Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Simonsen, Marianne - 2021
Exploiting a rich panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment generating variation in the take-up of pre-school across municipalities, we provide evidence of the effects on non-cognitive child outcomes of participating in large scale publicly...
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Two Economists' Musings on the Stability of Locus of Control
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011
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...
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Effects of Childhood Peers on Personality Skills
Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2022
Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
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