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Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Weinberger, Catherine - 2002

American business seems to be infatuated with its workers' "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it rewarded in labor markets? Using the Project Talent, NLS72 and High School and Beyond datasets, we show that men who occupied leadership positions in high school earn more as adults,...

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Managing Skill Premium Through Firm Structure

Hill, Enoch - 2017

order of magnitude larger for owners and managers compared to other types of skilled workers. We interpret this to imply … by choosing to employ more levels of management. These managers require a higher average skill level and command a higher … average skill premium. Additionally, our model predicts that skill premium is increasing in the ratio of workers to managers …

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Leadership Skills and Wages

Kuhn, Peter; Weinberger, Catherine J. - 2021

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Changes in Managerial Pay Structures 1986-1992 and Rising Returns to Skill

Levine, David I.; O'Shaughnessy, K. C.; Cappelli, Peter - 2011

We analyze a database with information on wages and skills across firms in a sample of over 50,000 managers between …

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Leadership skills and wages

Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Weinberger, Catherine - 2002

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Wages and immigrant occupational composition in Sweden

Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger; Faisal, Sharif - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between immigrant occupational composition and wages in Sweden. Effects of changes in proportion of immigrant workers in different occupations on the wage levels of both natives and immigrants are estimated. Our results suggest that increases in immigrant...

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Cognitive, non-cognitive skills and gender wage gaps : evidence from linked employer-employee data in Bangladesh

Nordman, Christophe J.; Sarr, Leopold R.; Sharma, Smriti - 2015

We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive skills and personality traits. Our results show that while cognitive skills are important in determining mean wages, personality...

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Racial discrimination in the US labor market : employment and wage differentials by skill

Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Bradley, Jake; Tarasonis, Linas - 2014

In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared to his white counterpart. Lang and Lehmann (2012) argue that these mean differences mask substantial heterogeneity along the distribution of workers' skill. In particular, they...

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"Soft" skills, "hard" skills, and the black/white earnings gap

Fan, Chengze Simon (contributor); Wei, Xiangdong (contributor) - 2005

This paper provides both a theoretical and an empirical investigation into the impact of job skill types on the black/white pay differentials. The theoretical analysis derives that the more intensively "soft"/"hard" skills are used in an occupation, the greater/smaller the black/white pay...

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Soft Skills and Their Wage Returns : Overview of Empirical Literature

Balcar, Jiří - 2014

Psychological traits, attitudes and soft skills represent factors whose effect on an individual's wages has begun to be examined recently. Today, there is an extensive empirical body on wage returns to the first two factors, but still a relatively small one on wage returns to soft skills, such...

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