@techreport{fdi:010074735,
  title = {{C}ognitive and non-cognitive skills, hiring channels, and wages in {B}angladesh},
  author = {{H}ilger, {A}. and {N}ordman, {C}hristophe and {S}arr, {L}.{R}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{T}his paper uses a novel matched employer-employee data set representing the formal sector in {B}angladesh to provide descriptive evidence of both the relative importance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in this part of the labor market and the interplay between skills and hiring channels in determining wages. {W}hile cognitive skills (literacy, a learning outcome) aect wages only by enabling workers to use formal hiring channels, they have no additional wage return. {N}on-cognitive skills, on the other hand, do not aect hiring channels, but they do enjoy a positive wage return. {T}his wage return diers by hiring channel: those hired through formal channels bene t from higher returns to openness to experience, but lower returns to conscientiousness and hostile attribution bias. {T}hose hired through networks enjoy higher wages for higher levels of emotional stability, but they are also punished for higher hostile attribution bias. {T}his is in line with dierent occupational levels being hired predominantly through one channel or the other. {W}e provide suggestive evidence that employers might use hiring channels dierently, depending on what skill they deem important: employers valuing communication skills, a skill that could arguably be observed during selection interviews, are associated with a larger within- rm wage gap between formal and network hires, while the importance of teamwork, a skill that is more dicult to observe at the hiring stage, is associated with a smaller wage gap.},
  keywords = {{MARCHE} {DU} {TRAVAIL} ; {SALAIRE} ; {FILIERE} {ECONOMIQUE} ; {MODELISATION} ; {COMPETENCE} ; {RECRUTEMENT} ; {BANGLADESH}},
  address = {{P}aris},
  publisher = {{DIAL}},
  series = {{D}ocuments de {T}ravail - {DIAL}},
  pages = {40  multigr.},
  year = {2018},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010074735},
}