Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21475 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 482
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
American business seems to be infatuated with its workers? ?leadership? skills. Is there such a thing, and is it rewarded in labor markets? Using the Project Talent, NLS72 and High School and Beyond datasets, we show that men who occupied leadership positions in high school earn more as adults, even when cognitive skills are held constant. The pure leadership-wage effect varies from four percent for a broad definition of leadership in 1971 to twenty-four percent for a narrow definition in 1992, and appears to have increased over time. High-school leaders are more likely to occupy managerial occupations as adults, and leadership skills command a higher wage premium within managerial occupations than other jobs. We find evidence that leadership skill has a component that is determined before high school, but also find evidence that it is ?teachable?.
Subjects: 
education
leadership
wages
ability
JEL: 
J24
I21
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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