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Why do low-educated workers invest less in further training?
Fouarge, Didier; Schils, Trudie; Grip, Andries de - 2010
willing to participate in training. This lesser willingness to participate in training is driven by economic preferences … (future orientation, preference for leisure), as well as personality traits (locus of control, exam anxiety, and openness to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274580
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Do funds for more teachers improve student outcomes?
Borgen, Nicolai T.; Kirkebøen, Lars J.; Kotsadam, Andreas - 2022
We investigate the effects of a large-scale Norwegian reform that provided extra teachers to 166 lower secondary schools with relatively high student-teacher ratios and low average grades. We exploit these two margins using a regression discontinuity setup and find that the reform reduced the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202391
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Occupational attainment and earnings in Southeast Asia : the role of non-cognitive skills
Bühler, Dorothee Christine; Sharma, Rasadhika; Stein, … - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 67 (2020)
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The timing of puberty and gender differences in educational achievement
Koerselman, Kristian; Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2017
In this paper, we study the effect of the timing of puberty on educational achievement and examine to what extent the gender differences in the timing of puberty can explain gender differences in achievement. We use British cohort data that combine information on pubertal development with test...
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Overeducation and wages : the role of cognitive skills and personality traits
Palczyńska, Marta - In: Baltic journal of economics 21 (2021) 1, pp. 85-111
This article investigates the extent to which personality traits and cognitive skills can be seen as potential …-age population with well-established measures of cognitive skills and personality traits, I find that accounting for personality and … also demonstrate that personality is one of the contributors to the risk of being overeducated among workers aged 18 …
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Do funds for more teachers improve student outcomes?
Borgen, Nicolai T.; Kirkebøen, Lars J.; Kotsadam, Andreas - 2022
We investigate the effects of a large-scale Norwegian reform that provided extra teachers to 166 lower secondary schools with relatively high student-teacher ratios and low average grades. We exploit these two margins using a regression discontinuity setup and find that the reform reduced the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013257105
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When workers' skills become unbundled : some empirical consequences for sorting and wages
Nordström Skans, Oskar; Choné, Philippe; Kramarz, Francis - 2022
This empirical paper analyzes labor market sorting across establishments using Swedish register data on cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. We draw on the theoretical foundations of Chone' and Kramarz (2021), in which workers are endowed with sets of multidimensional skills that need to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174859
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Technical education, non-cognitive skills and labor market outcomes : experimental evidence from Brazil
Camargo, Juliana; Lima, Lycia; Riva, Flavio; Souza, … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 10 (2021) 1, pp. 1-34
This paper describes the results from an evaluation of a public policy that offers scholarships to current and former public high school students, so that they can attend technical and vocational education courses free of charge. We use a waiting list randomized controlled trial in four...
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The returns to personality traits across the wage distribution
Collischon, Matthias - 2017
effects of certain personality traits (agreeableness, neuroticism and risk taking) across the wage distribution for full …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011701178
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The graduate wage and earnings premia and the role of non-cognitive skills
Buchmueller, Gerda; Walker, Ian - 2020
Estimates of the graduate earnings premium typically do not allow for the effect of non-cognitive skills. Since such skills are unobservable in most datasets there is a concern that existing estimates of the graduate premium are contaminated by selection on such unobservables. We use data on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214119