scholarly journals Non-Cognitive Abilities And Labor Market Outcomes: The Role Of Work Ethic And Personality Traits On Supervisory Status And Promotion

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Wei Luke Chu ◽  
Susan J. Linz
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Linked Data ◽  
Work Ethic ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Market Outcomes

A growing literature suggests that noncognitive abilities are important determinants of earnings. But empirical research on nonwage labor market outcomes is still limited due to data availability. In this paper, we collect employer-employee linked data from six former socialist countries and estimate three noncognitive abilities: adherence to work ethic, the preference for challenge versus affiliation, and locus of control, and their relationship with workers’ supervisory status and promotions. We find that these noncognitive abilities are strong predictors of the likelihood of being a supervisor and being promoted as well as the number of supervisees and promotions. We also study the role of noncognitive abilities in the gender gap in these labor market outcomes. Based on a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition, gender differences in these noncognitive abilities can explain a modest proportion of the gender gap in supervisory status and promotions.

A Gender Agenda: A Progress Report on Competitiveness

2017 ◽  
Vol 107 (5) ◽  
pp. 115-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muriel Niederle
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Progress Report ◽  
Open Area ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Behavioral Trait ◽  
Institutional Differences ◽  
Trait Competitiveness

I review the role of a new behavioral trait, competitiveness, on the gender agenda. I first describe how to measure competitiveness in the laboratory and show that gender differences in competitiveness are robust. I then establish the external economic relevance of the experimental measure of competitiveness: competitiveness correlates with education and labor market outcomes and can help account for gender differences therein. Finally, institutions can differ in the importance they place on competitiveness and hence can affect gender differences in economic outcomes. Exploring these institutional differences and their effects remains an open area of behavioral market design.

scholarly journals The Role of Family and Friends in Return Migration and Its Labor Market Outcomes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Joseph Gillespie ◽  
Clara H. Mulder ◽  
Christiane von Reichert
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Return Migration ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Market Stability ◽  
Onward Migration

AbstractDrawing on survey data on individuals’ motives for migration in Sweden (N = 2172), we examine the importance of family and friends for return versus onward migration, including their importance for different age groups and in different communities on the rural–urban spectrum. The results point to a significant relationship between the importance of family and return versus onward migration, with family importance decreasing with age among returning migrants. At the same time, the importance of friends for returning increases with age. The findings did not suggest a significant relationship between urbanicity and returning versus migration elsewhere. Based on a subset of respondents who were employed prior to migrating (n = 1056), we further examined labor market outcomes for onward versus returning migrants. The results broadly indicate that return migrations are linked to lower likelihoods of labor market deterioration and improvement, suggesting greater labor market stability for return vis-à-vis onward migrations. However, the importance of family for returning (versus moving elsewhere) is associated with higher likelihoods of labor market deterioration and improvement compared with staying the same, indicating greater volatility in labor market outcomes when the importance of family is considered.

scholarly journals Gender Gap in Upward Mobility: What is the Role of Non-cognitive Traits?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Wei Chu ◽  
S Linz
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Work Ethic ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
Large Employer ◽  
Cognitive Traits

Do non-cognitive traits contribute to the gender gap in supervisory status and promotion? We use a large employer-employee matched dataset collected from six former socialist countries to assess the link between non-cognitive traits and upward mobility. Controlling for workplace heterogeneity, we find that gender differences in locus of control, the preference for challenge versus affiliation, and adherence to work ethic together can explain about 7–18% of the gender gap in supervisory status and promotion. Overall, non-cognitive traits provide an important, though modest, explanation for the gender gap in upward mobility. The version of record is available at https://doi.org/10.1108/ijm-12-2015-0220. The full citation is as follows: Chu, Y.-W.L., and Linz, S. (2017). Gender gap in upward mobility: what is the role of non-cognitive traits? International Journal of Manpower 38, 835–853.

scholarly journals Criminal Punishment, Labor Market Outcomes, and Economic Inequality: Devah Pager’s Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett Burkhardt
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Criminal Record ◽  
Criminal Punishment ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Former Prisoners

A growing empirical literature examines the role of incarceration in labor market outcomes and economic inequality more broadly. Devah Pager’s book, Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration (2007), offers compelling evidence that employment opportunities for former prisoners--especially black former prisoners--are bleak. I review Pager’s methods and findings, place them in the context of previous work, and discuss the relation of race to a criminal record. I then explore several lines of related research that investigate the increasing reach of criminal punishment into various social realms. One goal of this essay is to draw research on economic inequality into the law and society literature.

The role of IQ and education in predicting later labor market outcomes: Implications for affirmative action.

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew H. Scullin ◽  
Elizabeth Peters ◽  
Wendy M. Williams ◽  
Stephen J. Ceci
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Market Outcomes

scholarly journals Aggregate Labor Market Outcomes: The Role of Choice and Chance

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Krusell ◽  
Toshihiko Mukoyama ◽  
Richard Rogerson ◽  
Aysegul Sahin
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Market Outcomes

scholarly journals Hours, Occupations, and Gender Differences in Labor Market Outcomes

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés Erosa ◽  
Luisa Fuster ◽  
Gueorgui Kambourov ◽  
Richard Rogerson
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
And Gender
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