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unconditional quantile regressions using large-scale survey data from Germany, the UK, and Australia. To test the joint explanatory …
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This paper investigates whether personality traits can explain glass ceilings (increasing gender wage gaps across the … wage distribution). Using longitudinal survey data from Germany, the UK, and Australia, I combine unconditional quantile … up to 14.5% of the overall gender wage gap. However, controlling for personality traits does not lead to a significant …
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, including wages and employment. Non-cognitive skills can also serve as an additional explanation for the gender wage gap. This … paper disentangles the complex relationship between non-cognitive skills and the gender wage gap based on Russian data. Data …-cognitive skills. Our findings suggest that non-cognitive skills account for up to 8 per cent of the gender wage gap, although …
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This article investigates the extent to which personality traits and cognitive skills can be seen as potential determinants of overeducation, and can explain the overeducation wage penalty. Using a representative survey of the Polish working-age population with well-established measures of...
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time for the working age population (25-64 years of age) in Germany. However, there are intra-individual changes which can …
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children of three years and older in Germany. However, severe shortages in the former-West meant that many children could not …
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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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