Wage premia for skills: the complementarity of cognitive and non-cognitive skills

Palczyńska, Marta

doi:10.1108/ijm-08-2019-0379

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“…This is consistent with the expectations of economics theory that cognitive and noncognitive abilities are complements [ 2 , 61 ], so that under the premise that individuals are uncertain about their own ability, higher self-esteem enhances one’s effort toward achieving goals and ultimately leads to better outcomes [ 62 ]. Earlier empirical research has provided evidence that there is a strong positive relationship between non-cognitive abilities (i.e., self-esteem) and cognitive skills development (i.e., academic outcomes).…”

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The Role of Self-Esteem in the Academic Performance of Rural Students in China

Qian

Abbey

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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The self-esteem of students may be significantly associated with their academic performance. However, past research in developing contexts on this issue is limited, particularly among early adolescents. Using a sample of 3101 students from rural primary and junior high schools in China, this study measured their self-esteem by the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) and explored its association with academic performance. Our findings indicate that students in rural China had both significantly lower self-esteem and a higher prevalence of low self-esteem when compared to past studies of similarly aged students both from urban China and internationally. Furthermore, there was a strong positive correlation between a student’s self-esteem and academic performance. A one-SD increase in RSES score (indicating better self-esteem) was associated with an increase of 0.12 SD in standardized math scores (p < 0.001), and students with low self-esteem (RSES score < 25) scored lower on math tests by 0.14 SD (p < 0.001), which were robust and consistent when employing the propensity score matching method. Our study expands the growing body of empirical evidence on the link between self-esteem and academic performance among rural youth in developing countries and emphasizes the need to improve their self-esteem with the aim of helping them achieve academically.

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The Role of Self-Esteem in the Academic Performance of Rural Students in China

Qian

Abbey

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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“…These findings are consistent with the results concerning the Polish labor market described in this paper. In the Polish literature, self-reported items representing non-cognitive skills to some extent close to soft skills were analyzed by Palczyńska (2018) who also found significant relationships between personal traits, cognitive skills and wages.…”

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Soft Skills and Earnings: Evidence From a Nationwide Survey in Poland

Grześkowiak¹

2020

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The purpose of this paper is to examine differences in earnings in Poland with respect to the level of soft skills. The study is based on data from a nationwide survey on human capital carried out in 2014. Eight types of soft skills are taken into consideration: entrepreneurship and showing initiative, resistance to stress, cooperation in a group, communicativeness, ability to resolve conflicts, coordination of the work of other employees, creativity and continuous learning of new things. Distributions of earnings corresponding to groups of individuals declaring low, medium and high soft skills are compared by statistical methods, namely by kernel estimation, one-way ANOVA on ranks and relative distributions. The analysis leads to the conclusion that earnings distributions vary substantially with regard to the level of soft skills. The biggest differences concern such skills as entrepreneurship and showing initiative, coordination of the work of other employees and creativity. This paper contributes to the knowledge about the associations between soft skills level and earnings.

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“…They find that recruiters preferred more open and conscientious applicants for analytic tasks, and more open, extraverted and agreeable employees for interactive tasks. Finally, using employee data from Poland, Palczyńska (2021) shows a complementarity between cognitive and noncognitive skills, that is, the more neurotic an individual is, the lower their returns to cognitive skills.…”

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Wage returns to job tasks and personality traits in Germany

Rohrbach-Schmidt

Wehner

Krueger

et al. 2023

IJM

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PurposeThis article aims to examine whether specific job tasks measured at the individual level or personality traits are associated with wages and whether the relationship between personality traits and wages differs depending on the job tasks that individuals perform.Design/methodology/approachThis study analyzes the association between job tasks and personality traits, and their interaction, with regard to wages using German employee data from 2017/2018.FindingsResults suggest that nonroutine manual, interactive or analytic tasks are associated with significantly higher wages compared to routine manual tasks, and while extraversion and emotional stability are related to higher wages, agreeableness and openness tend to be associated with lower wages also within occupations. Moreover, the association between personality traits and wages varies depending on the job task requirements at the workplace. A high degree of extraversion in particular is associated with higher wages when the employee performs nonroutine manual, interactive or analytic tasks.Originality/valueTo date, especially the interaction between individual job tasks and personality traits on wages has not been extensively studied because data on both job tasks and personality at the employee level are scarce. This study contributes to the understanding of wage differences among employees.

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Wage premia for skills: the complementarity of cognitive and non-cognitive skills

Cited by 12 publications

References 61 publications

The Role of Self-Esteem in the Academic Performance of Rural Students in China

The Role of Self-Esteem in the Academic Performance of Rural Students in China

Soft Skills and Earnings: Evidence From a Nationwide Survey in Poland

Wage returns to job tasks and personality traits in Germany

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