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Author: Petre, Melinda
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1. Petre, Melinda
Are Employers Omniscient? Employer Learning About Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 57,3 (July 2018): 323-360.
Also: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/irel.12210
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Cognitive Ability; Learning Hypothesis; Noncognitive Skills; Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) (see Self-Esteem); Rotter Scale (see Locus of Control)

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Do employers recognize noncognitive skills at the beginning of a career or is there a learning process? Does learning transfer perfectly across employers or is there a degree to which learning resets as employees change jobs throughout their careers? This paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 to incorporate measures of noncognitive skills into a model of symmetric employer learning described originally by Altonji and Pierret (2001) and nested in a model of asymmetric employer learning as in Schonberg (2007). I find evidence that employers reward self‐esteem, internal control, and schooling initially, while rewarding cognitive skills and motivation over time.
Bibliography Citation
Petre, Melinda. "Are Employers Omniscient? Employer Learning About Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills." Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 57,3 (July 2018): 323-360.
2. Petre, Melinda
Contributions of Skills to the Racial Wage Gap
Journal of Human Capital 13,3 (Fall 2019): 479-518.
Also: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/704322
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Keyword(s): Cognitive Ability; Ethnic Differences; Male Sample; Noncognitive Skills; Racial Differences; Skills; Wage Differentials; Wage Gap

Analyzing the distributions of wages, cognitive, and noncognitive skills for white, black, and Hispanic men reveals differences throughout these distributions. I use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and unconditional quantile Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions to decompose observed wage gaps throughout the distribution into portions explained by cognitive and noncognitive skills. Noncognitive skills explain 2-4 percent of the wage gap between blacks and whites and 9-25 percent of the wage gap throughout the distribution between Hispanics and whites, whereas cognitive skills explain 8-70 and 24-90 percent, respectively. Between blacks and Hispanics, noncognitive skills explain 5-10 percent and cognitive skills 9-24 percent.
Bibliography Citation
Petre, Melinda. "Contributions of Skills to the Racial Wage Gap." Journal of Human Capital 13,3 (Fall 2019): 479-518.
3. Petre, Melinda
Bond, Timothy N.
Power in Numbers? A Dynamic Model of Wages and Gender Sorting in the Face of Time-Varying Prejudice
Presented: Miami FL, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Fall Research Conference, November 12-14, 2015
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM)
Keyword(s): Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Gender Differences; Occupational Choice; Occupational Segregation; Wage Gap

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Does having more women in an occupation matter for women selecting into occupations over the course of their careers? Do women in male dominated occupations earn more than women in female dominated occupations? We develop and test a dynamic model of gender sorting into occupations in the face of time-varying prejudice using data from the NLSY, DOT and CPS. Specifically, we investigate how the within occupation wage gap changes as the within occupation gender composition changes over time. Preliminary analysis suggests that women who enter highly segregated occupations earn more than women who enter those same occupations when they are less segregated and changes in the wage gap lead changes in gender segregation.
Bibliography Citation
Petre, Melinda and Timothy N. Bond. "Power in Numbers? A Dynamic Model of Wages and Gender Sorting in the Face of Time-Varying Prejudice." Presented: Miami FL, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Fall Research Conference, November 12-14, 2015.