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Author: Golsteyn, Bart H.H.
Resulting in 4 citations.
1. Borghans, Lex
Golsteyn, Bart H.H.
Job Mobility in Europe, Japan and the United States
British Journal of Industrial Relations 50,3 (September 2012): 436-456.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8543.2011.00848.x/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Careers after Higher Education: a European Research Study (CHEERS); College Graduates; Cross-national Analysis; Germany, German; Japan; Japanese; Labor Market Studies, Geographic; Mobility, Job; Sweden, Swedish

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Evidence about job mobility outside the United States is scarce and difficult to compare cross-nationally because of non-uniform data. We document job mobility patterns of college graduates in their first three years in the labour market, using unique uniform data covering 11 European countries and Japan. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we replicate the information in this survey to compare the results with the United States. We find that (a) US graduates hold more jobs than European graduates, (b) contrasting conventional wisdom, job mobility in Japan is only somewhat lower than the European average, and (c) there are large differences in job mobility within Europe.
Bibliography Citation
Borghans, Lex and Bart H.H. Golsteyn. "Job Mobility in Europe, Japan and the United States." British Journal of Industrial Relations 50,3 (September 2012): 436-456.
2. Borghans, Lex
Golsteyn, Bart H.H.
Job Mobility in Europe, Japan and the United States
IZA Discussion Paper No 5386, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), December 2010.
Also: http://www.politiquessociales.net/IMG/pdf/n2_dp5386.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Keyword(s): Britain, British; British Household Panel Survey (BHPS); Careers after Higher Education: a European Research Study (CHEERS); College Graduates; Cross-national Analysis; France, French; German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP); Germany, German; Mobility, Job; Norway, Norwegian; Sweden, Swedish

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Evidence about job mobility outside the U.S. is scarce and difficult to compare crossnationally because of non-uniform data. We document job mobility patterns of college graduates in their first three years in the labor market, using unique uniform data covering 11 European countries and Japan. Using the NLSY, we replicate the information in this survey to compare the results to the U.S. We find that (1) U.S. graduates hold more jobs than European graduates. (2) Contrasting conventional wisdom, job mobility in Japan is only somewhat lower than the European average. (3) There are large differences in job mobility within Europe. Keywords: job mobility, graduates, Europe, Japan, U.S.
Bibliography Citation
Borghans, Lex and Bart H.H. Golsteyn. "Job Mobility in Europe, Japan and the United States." IZA Discussion Paper No 5386, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), December 2010.
3. Borghans, Lex
Golsteyn, Bart H.H.
Heckman, James J.
Humphries, John Eric
Identification Problems in Personality Psychology
Personality and Individual Differences 51,3 (August 2011): 315-320:
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886911001504
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Achievement; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Cross-national Analysis; I.Q.; Intelligence Tests; Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) (see Self-Esteem); Rotter Scale (see Locus of Control)

This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by psychologists to infer traits are based on behaviors, broadly defined. These behaviors are produced from multiple traits interacting with incentives in situations. In general, measures are determined by these multiple traits and do not identify any particular trait unless incentives and other traits are controlled for. Using two data sets, we show, that substantial portions of the variance in achievement test scores and grades, which are often used as measures of cognition, are explained by personality variables.
Bibliography Citation
Borghans, Lex, Bart H.H. Golsteyn, James J. Heckman and John Eric Humphries. "Identification Problems in Personality Psychology ." Personality and Individual Differences 51,3 (August 2011): 315-320:.
4. Borghans, Lex
Golsteyn, Bart H.H.
Heckman, James J.
Humphries, John Eric
What Grades and Achievement Tests Measure
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10356, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), November 2016.
Also: http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=10356
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); British Cohort Study (BCS); CESD (Depression Scale); Cross-national Analysis; Grade Point Average (GPA)/Grades; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; I.Q.; Mid-Life in the United States (MIDUS); Test Scores/Test theory/IRT; Voting Behavior

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Intelligence quotient (IQ), grades, and scores on achievement tests are widely used as measures of cognition, yet the correlations among them are far from perfect. This paper uses a variety of data sets to show that personality and IQ predict grades and scores on achievement tests. Personality is relatively more important in predicting grades than scores on achievement tests. IQ is relatively more important in predicting scores on achievement tests. Personality is generally more predictive than IQ of a variety of important life outcomes. Both grades and achievement tests are substantially better predictors of important life outcomes than IQ. The reason is that both capture personality traits that have independent predictive power beyond that of IQ.
Bibliography Citation
Borghans, Lex, Bart H.H. Golsteyn, James J. Heckman and John Eric Humphries. "What Grades and Achievement Tests Measure." IZA Discussion Paper No. 10356, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), November 2016.