|
EconStor >
Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA), Bonn >
IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) >
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35678
|
| | |
Full metadata record
| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Lundborg, Petter | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Nystedt, Paul | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Rooth, Dan-Olof | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2009-10-07 | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2010-07-07T11:55:13Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2010-07-07T11:55:13Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2009 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.pi | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-2009080761 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35678 | | - |
| dc.description.abstract | | The association between stature and favorable labor market outcomes has been extensively documented. Recent studies have attributed this height premium to cognitive and social skills. We offer an alternative explanation, where the premium mainly arises from the positive association between height and physical capacity. Accounting for the latter reduces the height premium by about 80 percent. By also accounting for cognitive and non-cognitive skills, we are able to explain the entire height premium. Our estimates are based on data from the military enlistment register that has been linked to earnings for the entire population of Swedish males aged 28-38 in 2003. | | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | Forschungsinst. zur Zukunft der Arbeit Bonn | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | IZA Discussion Papers 4266 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | J10 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | J70 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | Earnings | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | height premium | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | cognitive and non-cognitive skills | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | physical capacity | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Lohndifferenzierung | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Anthropologie | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Kognition | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Gesundheit | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Schweden | | en_US |
| dc.title | | The height premium in earnings: the role of physical capacity and cognitive and non-cognitive skills | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 607729732 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | - |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
|
Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.
|