Working paper
Cognitive and non-cognitive skills and wages: the role of latent abilities on the gender wage gap in Peru
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Recently there has been growing interest in the relationship between cognitive and non-cognitive abilities and labour market outcomes. A large literature provides evidence on the positive connection between cognitive test scores and higher wages. Fewer and newer papers have explored the correlation between non cognitive test scores and wages. However, attention is focused on developed countries. Test scores suffer two limitations. First, they can be considered outcomes of the schooling level ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ Department for International Development
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Funding agency for:
Lavado, P
Velarde, L
Yamada, G
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R8544
R8544
R8544
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Young Lives Publisher's website
- Series:
- Working papers
- Place of publication:
- http://www.younglives.org.uk/publications/WP
- Publication date:
- 2013-01-01
- ISBN:
- 9781909403314
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:7956
- Deposit date:
- 2014-02-03
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- Young Lives
- Copyright date:
- 2013
- Notes:
- Young Lives Working Paper 118. This paper was presented at a conference on Inequalities in Children’s Outcomes in Developing Countries hosted by Young Lives at St Anne’s College, Oxford on 8–9 July 2013. © Young Lives 2013
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