Firms that provide on-the-job training do so when it is critical to their productivity -- and when productivity is … critical to their survival. This paper begins by confirming a significant and positive return from on-the-job training on wages … and productivity, as well as the presence of positive externalities from on-the-job training, while discussing the …

correlates; and (c) the link between TVA and teacher wages. Teachers are highly effective in our setting: Moving a student from … between TVA and wages in the public sector (although there is in the private sector), and a policy change that shifted public … hiring from permanent to temporary contracts, reducing wages by 35 percent, had no adverse impact on TVA, either immediately …

of labor market outcomes in Peru. In particular, cognitive skills positively correlate with wages and the probability of …Evidence from developed country data suggests that cognitive and non-cognitive skills contribute to improved labor … that incorporates modules to measure cognitive and non-cognitive skills. The paper estimates a structural latent model with …

levels in seven East Asian countries with the objective of providing a comprehensive analysis of trends in demand for skills … region; (b) generally increasing demand for skills in the region; (c) the service sector has become the most important driver … of demand for skills for all countries (except Thailand); (d) countries can be broadly categorized into three groups in …

wages and the demand for skills … wages for over five million workers in sixteen Latin American economies, the authors estimate national and industry …

-cognitive skills are associated with disparities in firm-level wage structures. Correlations between wages and personality traits are …Many employers and employees believe that non-cognitive skills are an important contributor to labor market success … correlations between wages and the so-called "big five" personality traits, and augments the analysis with the latent personality …

cognitive and socioemotional skills. While taller workers are regularly observed to earn more, they commonly have higher …