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Title: Are Employers Omniscient? Employer Learning About Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills
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1. Petre, Melinda
Are Employers Omniscient? Employer Learning About Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 57,3 (July 2018): 323-360.
Also: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/irel.12210
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Cognitive Ability; Learning Hypothesis; Noncognitive Skills; Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) (see Self-Esteem); Rotter Scale (see Locus of Control)

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Do employers recognize noncognitive skills at the beginning of a career or is there a learning process? Does learning transfer perfectly across employers or is there a degree to which learning resets as employees change jobs throughout their careers? This paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 to incorporate measures of noncognitive skills into a model of symmetric employer learning described originally by Altonji and Pierret (2001) and nested in a model of asymmetric employer learning as in Schonberg (2007). I find evidence that employers reward self‐esteem, internal control, and schooling initially, while rewarding cognitive skills and motivation over time.
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Petre, Melinda. "Are Employers Omniscient? Employer Learning About Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills." Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 57,3 (July 2018): 323-360.