Incentive-enhancing preferences: personality, behavior, and earnings
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Good social skills and a pleasant personality are important to job success. Someone who has good social skills will generally go further than someone who has good cognitive ability paired with poor social skills.
Publication Name: American Economic Review
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0002-8282
Year: 2001
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Understanding, speaking, reading, writing and earnings in the immigrant labor market
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This study attempts to discover whether the ability to read, write, and understand English are as valuable as the ability to speak English. The research hear shows that the most valuable ability is the ability to understand English. Speaking, reading and writing ability will also improve chances for higher wages.
Publication Name: American Economic Review
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0002-8282
Year: 2001
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Persistent parochialism: trust and exclusion in ethnic networks
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The influence of parochialism on the capacity of group associates to support efficiently is explained. Methods to implement parochialism model are presented.
Publication Name: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0167-2681
Year: 2004
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