both hourly wages and annual work hours. Fourth, the returns to cognitive skill are greater for women than men and for … corresponding changes in hourly wages. Fifth, the average gains in lifetime incomes predicted to result from greater levels of …

We explore the nonprofit earnings penalty. To separate the influence of demand and supply, we leverage workers who …

when it is not competitive. This prediction is then tested using data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings in the …

setting wages and determining work amenities. In the administrative data, we causally examine through which channels unions … depending on the age at which workers enroll. In addition, we show that focusing on a restricted set of outcomes, such as wages …

This paper studies the cyclical behaviour of earnings risk and career changes. We document that the procyclical … skewness of the earnings growth distribution arises mostly from the earnings changes of employer and occupation switchers. To … uncover their relative importance in driving cyclical earnings changes and whether this arises from changes in the returns to …

only from high cognitive skills but also from high motivation and adequate personality traits. This suggests that part of … the contribution of cognitive skills to economic growth could be due to personality traits. Across large parts of the … claiming that emotional intelligence can be changed at any age. Most of what economists know about the technology of non …

ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …