This paper investigates the influence of parental education on the returns to experience of Italian men using a new … that an additional year of parental education increases sons' weekly wages by 11.7% after twenty years of experience and …

We use data from the military enlistment for a large representative sample of Swedish men to assess the importance of … stronger predictor of labor market outcomes than cognitive ability. In particular, we find strong evidence that men who fare … managerial position. In contrast, cognitive ability is valuable only for men in qualified occupations. As a result, noncognitive …