It is still widely debated how non-cognitive skills can be affected by policy intervention. For example, universal …

This paper investigates two mechanisms through which education may affect cognitive skills in adolescence: the role of …. Overall, secondary education therefore seems to impact students'cognitive skills in adolescence especially through …

compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … estimating the effect of education on cognitive skills. The results suggest that education after the eighth year does not seem to … have a causal effect on cognitive skills in Germany. This is consistent with the explanation for zero effects of schooling …

and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how long-term music training during childhood and youth affects the …-Economic Panel (SOEP). Our findings suggest that adolescents with music training have better cognitive skills and school grades and …Despite numerous studies on skill development,we know little about the causal effects of music training on cognitive …

Panel, we consider both the direct and indirect impact via further training. Basic estimates on an individual level do not … accompanied by positive training with regard to job satisfaction if we control for personal characteristics, working conditions …. The effects are stronger if the firm carries the training costs and if the share of trained workers within the firm …

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper analyzes the relationship between training and job … characteristics, we find a difference between males and females in the correlation of training with job satisfaction which is positive … effects. To gain insights into the reasons for this difference, we further investigate training characteristics by gender. We …

rerun using data from the International Adult Literacy Survey, allowing for an explicit control of skills as proxy of …