managers to evaluate which skill signals such as cognitive skills, social skills and maturity are valued by employers when … - cognitive skills, social skills, and maturity - affect the probability of being invited for a job interview. GPAs and social … skills prove relevant for both genders and both groups of labour-market entrants. The relevance of other signals differs in …

Wages and statutory pension claims are connected via the German social insurance system. This dissertation analyzes … unemployment risks on individual wages are analyzed in chapter 2. Building on a portfolio model for the labor market, the effects … compensation has an adverse effect on wages. In West Germany the effect is increasing with the level of qualification. The risk of …

erences in the distribution of income and wages using county-level data from Germany. Chapter 2 analyzes the impact of the so …

, productive skills, and individual labor-market success, primarily using information from largescale skills assessments. Chapter 2 …

performance. Finally, chapter 5 presents new insights to gender gaps in adult cognitive skills, showing that they are highly … related to wages, especially at the top of the wage distribution. …