This paper studies occupational mobility of ethnic German migrants who have entered Germany since 1984. The empirical …

This paper studies occupational mobility of ethnic German migrants who have entered Germany since 1984. The empirical …

We estimate month-of-birth effects on cognitive and noncognitive skills, as well as factors relevant to skill formation …. Our estimates indicate that younger students in a given grade cohort have lower cognitive and noncognitive skills. To shed … compensatory investment in cognitive skills by younger children, however, they are also more likely to have poor …

individuals with a comparative advantage in schooling and white‐collar work have, on average, higher cognitive skills and higher …

survey", a rich German data set with information on 0.1 percent of all individuals employed in Germany in 1998/1999. We use a … one-step full-information maximum likelihood and a two stage least squares estimation to regress the impact of training …

characteristics, gender, and education. However, evidence on the individual's socio-emotional skills creating favorable conditions for …

This paper investigates heterogeneous wage effects of non-cognitive skills across the wage distribution. I develop a … effects of non-cognitive skills for high-wage employees compared to their low-wage counterparts. I test these hypotheses with … unconditional quantile regressions using large-scale survey data from Germany, the UK, and Australia. To test the joint explanatory …