The Labor Market Returns to Cognitive and Noncognitive Ability: Evidence from the Swedish Enlistment

By Erik Lindqvist, Roine Vestman. 2011

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Social Psychology

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Soft Skills for the Workplace (2013, result): “Lindqvist and Vestman (2011) had a similar finding: They tracked 14,000 Swedish 18–19 year-old military enlistees who had been given both a two-hour cognitive test and a 25-minute non-cognitive interview.”
Wealth, Health, and Child Development: Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players* (2016, background): “Previous work has shown that the psychologist’s assessment, which we use as our measure of non-cognitive skill, is a strong predictor of labor market outcomes even conditional on cognitive skills (Lindqvist and Vestman 2011).”
Non-Cognitive Skills and Personality Traits: Labour Market Relevance and Their Development in Education & Training Systems (2011, background): “Lindquist and Westman, 2010, try to address this problem by using a unique dataset from the Swedish military enlistment.”
The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market (2017, background): “…controlling for the average intelligence of team members.7 A growing body of work in economics documents the labor market return to “noncognitive” skills, including social skills and leadership skills (Kuhn & Weinberger 2005; Heckman et al. 2006; Lindqvist & Vestman 2011; Borghans et al. 2014).”
The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities (2010, neutral): “Previous findings regarding the labor market effects of cognitive and noncognitive abilities for men (Lindqvist and Vestman, 2010) are thus likely to apply to women as well.”
Alcohol Availability, Prenatal Conditions, and Long-Term Economic Outcomes (2017, background): “24 See Göteborgsposten, November 2, 1967.”
Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Intergenerational Investment* (2018, positive): “This paper also contributes to a growing literature on non-cognitive skills, which have been shown to affect long-term outcomes like wages as much as cognitive skills (Heckman and Rubinstein, 2001; Heckman et al., 2006; Lindqvist and Vestman, 2011; Carneiro et al., 2007; Adhvaryu et al., 2016).”
Employability and Career Success: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Reality (2013, background): “For example, Lindqvist and Westman (2011) studied a large sample of 18-year-old Swedish soldiers to examine the relationship between cognitive and noncognitive skills and labor market outcomes.”
Evaluating Public Programs with Close Substitutes: The Case of Head Start (2016, neutral): “Ui (h, Zi) = ψh (Xi, Zi) + vih, Ui (c) = ψc (Xi) + vic, (13)”
Talent in Distressed Firms: Investigating the Labor Costs of Financial Distress (2018, background): “…valiant attempts at capturing these overall costs. well as employment outcomes (e.g., Heckman, Stixrud, and Urzua 2006); such skills are also highly valued in the labor market (e.g., Lindqvist and Vestman 2011), and are key drivers of firm productivity and value creation (e.g., Abowd et al. 2005).”
Top of the Class: The Importance of Ordinal Rank (2018, positive): “The importance of such non-cognitive skills for both academic attainment and non-academic attainment is now well established (Borghans et al., 2008; Lindqvist and Vestman, 2011; Heckman and Rubinstein, 2001).”
The economic impacts of learning losses (2020, methodology): “Examples of this first group of studies are (Murnane, Willett and Levy, 1995[48]), (Neal and Johnson, 1996[52]), (Mulligan, 1999[33])), (Murnane et al., 2000[32]), (Altonji and Pierret, 2001[46]), (Chetty et al., 2011[55]), and (Lindqvist and Vestman, 2011[31])).”
Getting Parents Involved: A Field Experiment in Deprived Schools (2014, positive): “In particular, the effects of non-cognitive characteristics on the labor market are now well documented (see e.g. Chetty et al. 2011, Lindqvist and Vestman, 2011, or Heckman, Stixrud and Urzua, 2006).”