Adolescent Cognitive Skills, Attitudinal/Behavioral Traits and Career Wages

Autor/inn/en	Hall, Matthew; Farkas, George
Titel	Adolescent Cognitive Skills, Attitudinal/Behavioral Traits and Career Wages
Quelle	In: Social Forces, 89 (2011) 4, S.1261-1285 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0037-7732
Schlagwörter	Wages; Locus of Control; Females; Salary Wage Differentials; Academic Aspiration; Whites; Thinking Skills; Adolescents; Cognitive Ability; Longitudinal Studies; Tests; Self Esteem; Race; Ethnicity; Personality Traits; Hispanic Americans; African Americans; National Longitudinal Survey of Youth; Armed Forces Qualification Test + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wage; Löhne; Weibliches Geschlecht; White; Weißer; Denkfähigkeit; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Examination; Prüfung; Examen; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Rasse; Abstammung; Ethnizität; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Afroamerikaner
Abstract	We use panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) to estimate the effects of cognitive skills (measured by the Armed Forces Qualification Test) and attitudinal/behavioral traits (a latent factor based on self-reported self-esteem, locus of control, educational aspirations and educational expectations) on career wage trajectories of white, black and Latino/a men and women. We find that both cognitive and attitudinal/behavioral traits affect initial wages and wage growth, above and beyond their effects on schooling and transcript-reported high school grades. The relative size of these effects, however, varies by race/ethnicity. We also show that black and Latino men, and black women have substantially flatter wage trajectories than white men and women. Using wage decomposition techniques, we find that the lower wages of these groups are partially, but not fully, accounted for by group differences in cognitive skill and attitudinal/behavioral traits. (Contains 2 figures, 4 tables, and 14 notes.) (As Provided).
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