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Risk, Norms, and Soft Skills: Non-Standard Drivers of Labor Market Outcomes
Risk, Norms, and Soft Skills: Non-Standard Drivers of Labor Market Outcomes
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202103025
- ISBN
- 9798315715559
- DDC
- 331.12
- 저자명
- Kades, Jennifer.
- 서명/저자
- Risk, Norms, and Soft Skills: Non-Standard Drivers of Labor Market Outcomes
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Duke University, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 152 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-11, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Garlick, Robert;Arcidiacono, Peter.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약How individuals decide whether and in what jobs to work, how firms decide whom to hire, and the aggregate wage and employment implications of these decisions are of central importance to labor economics and labor market policy. This dissertation explores the role of non-standard variables such as risk aversion, soft skills, and social norms in shaping these labor market outcomes.Chapter 2 examines job transition decisions and their wage growth implications over workers' careers. Large transitions into higher-skill jobs can boost wage growth, but are rare. Whereas existing work largely focuses on the (mis)match between worker skills and job skill requirements to explain this pattern, this chapter presents evidence that, while skills matter, larger transitions are also riskier. Since workers are risk averse, this risk also contributes to their hesitance to make bigger career moves. These results carry important policy implications for the relative efficacy of skills-focused (e.g., training) compared to risk-focused (e.g., job search assistance) active labor market policies.Chapter 3 provides experimental evidence on how using information about job applicants' soft skills in firms' hiring decisions affects both firm and workseeker outcomes. Partnering with the largest recruitment agency in South Africa, the experiment randomizes the criteria used to shortlist job applicants for job listings at partner firms. Results suggest that including measures of soft skills in candidate ranking leads to more efficient hiring and better firm-worker matches.Chapter 4 explores the relationship between social norms around work and labor market outcomes such as labor supply and wages. The analysis employs a novel measure of work norms in the U.S. over roughly the past decade, constructed using large-scale social media text data and machine learning methods. Results suggest that there is a meaningful relationship between social norms and labor supply, particularly for men.
- 키워드
- Job transitions
- 키워드
- Risk
- 키워드
- Social norms
- 키워드
- Soft skills
- 기타저자
- Duke University Economics
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-11B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
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■520 ▼aHow individuals decide whether and in what jobs to work, how firms decide whom to hire, and the aggregate wage and employment implications of these decisions are of central importance to labor economics and labor market policy. This dissertation explores the role of non-standard variables such as risk aversion, soft skills, and social norms in shaping these labor market outcomes.Chapter 2 examines job transition decisions and their wage growth implications over workers' careers. Large transitions into higher-skill jobs can boost wage growth, but are rare. Whereas existing work largely focuses on the (mis)match between worker skills and job skill requirements to explain this pattern, this chapter presents evidence that, while skills matter, larger transitions are also riskier. Since workers are risk averse, this risk also contributes to their hesitance to make bigger career moves. These results carry important policy implications for the relative efficacy of skills-focused (e.g., training) compared to risk-focused (e.g., job search assistance) active labor market policies.Chapter 3 provides experimental evidence on how using information about job applicants' soft skills in firms' hiring decisions affects both firm and workseeker outcomes. Partnering with the largest recruitment agency in South Africa, the experiment randomizes the criteria used to shortlist job applicants for job listings at partner firms. Results suggest that including measures of soft skills in candidate ranking leads to more efficient hiring and better firm-worker matches.Chapter 4 explores the relationship between social norms around work and labor market outcomes such as labor supply and wages. The analysis employs a novel measure of work norms in the U.S. over roughly the past decade, constructed using large-scale social media text data and machine learning methods. Results suggest that there is a meaningful relationship between social norms and labor supply, particularly for men.
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