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The Rising Return to Noncognitive Skill

Published:2022-04-01 Issue:2 Volume:14 Page:78-100
ISSN:1945-7782
Container-title:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
language:en
Short-container-title:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Author:

Edin Per-Anders¹,Fredriksson Peter²,Nybom Martin³,Öckert Björn⁴

Affiliation:

1. Department of Economics, Uppsala University, Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS), Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), and STIAS (e-mail: )

2. Department of Economics, Uppsala University, UCLS, IZA, and IFAU (e-mail: )

3. IFAU, UCLS, and Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) (e-mail: )

4. IFAU, Uppsala University, and UCLS (e-mail: )

Abstract

This paper uses administrative data from Sweden to document trends in the labor market returns to skills. Between 1992 and 2013, the economic return to noncognitive skill—a psychologist-assessed measure of teamwork and leadership skill—roughly doubled. The return to cognitive skill was relatively stable and decreased modestly during the 2000s, however. Among men with similar levels of education, the return to noncognitive skill is higher than the return to cognitive skill. The increasing return to noncognitive skill is driven by changes at the top of the wage distribution and by sorting into higher-paying occupations. (JEL I26, J24, J31)

Publisher

American Economic Association

Subject

General Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Link

https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/app.20190199

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