Non-cognitive skills and individual earnings: new evidence from PIAAC

Abstract We use the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) data to construct several measures of non-cognitive skills and to analyze the relationship between non-cognitive skills and earnings. We construct measures for non-cognitive skills based on previous research...

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Main Authors: Brindusa Anghel, Pau Balart
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-11-01
Series:SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13209-017-0165-x