Cognitive performance and labor market outcomes.

Autor/inn/en	Lin, Dajun; Lutter, Randall; Ruhm, Christopher J.
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Cognitive performance and labor market outcomes. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Kognitive Leistungsfähigkeit und Arbeitsmarktergebnisse.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass. (2016), 64 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper. 22470
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
DOI	10.3386/w22470
Schlagwörter	Kognitive Kompetenz; Leistungsfähigkeit; Frau; Arbeitsleistung; Frau; Leistungsfähigkeit; Schüler; Schulleistung; USA; Berufserfolg; Arbeitszeit; Kognitive Kompetenz; Lebenseinkommen; Lohnhöhe; Schüler; Schulleistung; Einkommenseffekt; Erwerbstätigkeit; Lebenseinkommen; Lohnhöhe; Arbeitsleistung; Berufserfolg; Erwerbstätiger; Arbeitszeit; Hispanoamerikaner; Schwarzer; Weißer; USA
Abstract	"We use information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and supplementary data sources to examine how cognitive performance, measured at approximately the end of secondary schooling, is related to the labor market outcomes of 20 through 50 year olds. Our estimates control for a wide array of individual and family background characteristics, a limited set of non-cognitive attributes, survey year dummy variables and, sometimes, geographic place effects. The analysis reveals five main findings. First, cognitive performance is positively associated with future labor market outcomes at all ages. The relationship is attenuated but not eliminated by the addition of controls for non-cognitive characteristics, while the inclusion of place effects does not change the estimated associations. Second, the returns to cognitive skill increase with age. Third, the effect on total incomes reflects a combination of positive impacts of cognitive performance for both hourly wages and annual work hours. Fourth, the returns to cognitive skill are greater for women than men and for blacks and Hispanics than for non-Hispanic whites, with differential effects on work hours being more important than corresponding changes in hourly wages. Fifth, the average gains in lifetime incomes predicted to result from greater levels of cognitive performance are only slightly above those reported in prior studies but the effects are heterogeneous, with larger relative and absolute increases, in most models, for non-whites or Hispanics than for non-Hispanic whites, and higher relative but not absolute returns for women than men." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2017/1