On the interpretation of non-cognitive skills – What is being measured and why it matters

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Genes, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

“…22 Later contributions to this literature include Kautz et al (2014) and Humphries and Kosse (2017). 23 In Appendix D, we show that a measure of cognition that is available for HRS respondents is positively associated with the EA score, but only weakly so (with a correlation coefficient of roughly 0.23).…”

A technológiai fejlődés hatása a munkapiacon elvárt készségekre

“…A nem-kognitív készségek hosszú távú egyéni, társadalmi hatásainak, a készségek fejlesztésére irányuló beavatkozások eredményeinek korrekt közgazdasági elemzését hosszú ideig hátráltatta, hogy jó ideig nem alakult ki egységesen értelmezett nomenklatúra és mérési módszer ezen a területen. Az USA Nemzeti Kutatási Tanácsa (US National Research Council) által 2012-ben kidolgozott klasszifikáció [NRC, 2012] ugyan segített rendet teremteni a definíciók alig áttekinthető rengetegében, de nem elégítette ki a jól működő, azonos módon értelmezett definíciókra építő mérési módszertan iránti igényeket [Humpries és Kosse, 2017].…”

Worker Personality: Another Skill Bias beyond Education in the Digital Age

“…One of these insights is that formal education is a rather imperfect proxy of human capital. 5 Notably, it captures the productive potential of personality only insofar as personality shapes students' success in school (Cunha et al, 2010;Hanushek and Woessmann, 2008;Heckman et al, 2006;Humphries and Kosse, 2017). But personality additionally affects labor market outcomes directly, i.e.…”

“…Almlund et al ., , p. 53) associate these measures with the Big Five factor of Neuroticism. Humphries and Kosse () show that the Big Five outperform a variety of other measures of non‐cognitive skills, including measures of locus of control and self‐esteem.…”