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Bonnard, Claire; Giret, Jean-François; Lambert-Le … - In: Applied economics letters 21 (2014) 16/18, pp. 1293-1296

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Cognitive and non-cognitive skills, hiring channels, and wages in Bangladesh

Hilger, Anne; Nordman, Christophe J.; Sarr, Leopold R. - 2018

This paper uses a novel matched employer-employee data set representing the formal sector in Bangladesh to provide descriptive evidence of both the relative importance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in this part of the labor market and the interplay between skills and hiring channels in...

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Locus of control and the gender gap in mental health

Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Munyanyi, Musharavati Ephraim; … - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 178 (2020), pp. 740-758

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(How) do non-cognitive skills programs improve adolescent school achievement? : experimental evidence

Martins, Pedro S. - 2017

Non-cognitive skills programs may be an important policy option to improve the academic outcomes of adolescents. In this paper, we evaluate experimentally the EPIS program, which is based on bi-weekly individual or small-group non-cognitive mediation short meetings with low-performing students....

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Numeracy and unemployment duration

Dohmen, Thomas; Van Landeghem, Bert G. M. - 2019

Governments are showing an increasing interest in quantitative models that give insights into the determinants of unemployment duration. Yet, these models oftentimes do not explicitly take into account that unemployment prospects are influenced by personality characteristics that are not being...

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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 … unexplained gender gap, mainly in the upper parts of the wage distribution. Finally, results suggest that employers place greater … existence of sex-specific skills of their workers, which could then widen the within-firm gender wage gap. …

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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

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Gender wage gap and the role of skills and tasks : evidence from the Austrian PIAAC data set

Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika - In: Applied economics 52 (2020) 2, pp. 113-134

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The creativity premium

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2021

Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key skill that is essential to open-ended problem solving and resistant to automation. We use rich...

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Short-run and long-run effects of peers from disrupted families

Lei, Ziteng - In: Journal of population economics : international … 35 (2022) 3, pp. 1007-1036

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