international cognitive tests. This association is often interpreted as evidence for the importance of cognitive skills for economic … growth. However, noncognitive skills, such as motivation and perseverance, are also important for the performance on … respect to their underlying skills: the starting level and the decline in performance during the test. The first component can …

results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany …

- Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

demand for skills, one should also reckon the inability of the educational system to provide work-related skills. Moreover …

estimate how skills relate to the odds of obtaining a permanent contract, versus alternative contractual arrangements for … employees. Our pooled analysis shows that skills substantially relate to having a permanent contract across the full sample …. Numeracy skills contribute more than literacy skills; a difference that is largely driven by sorting to occupations and …

-cycle wage growth of U.S. white males into four main sources: education, hours worked, cognitive skills (AFQT scores) and …