@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp10914,
            	author={Edin, Per-Anders and Fredriksson, Peter and Nybom, Martin and Öckert, Björn},
            	title={The Rising Return to Non-Cognitive Skill},
            	year={2017},
	month={Jul},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={10914},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10914},
	abstract={We examine the changes in the relative rewards to cognitive and non-cognitive skill during the time period 1992–2013. Using unique administrative data for Sweden, we document a secular increase in the returns to non-cognitive skill, which is particularly pronounced in the private sector and at the upper-end of the wage distribution. Workers with an abundance of non-cognitive skill were increasingly sorted into occupations that were intensive in: cognitive skill; as well as abstract, non-routine, social, non-automatable and offshorable tasks. 
Such occupations were also the types of occupations which saw greater increases in the relative return to non-cognitive skill. Moreover, we show that greater emphasis is placed on noncognitive skills in the promotion to leadership positions over time. These pieces of evidence are consistent with a framework where non-cognitive, inter-personal, skills are increasingly required to coordinate production within and across workplaces. },
	keywords={wage inequality;sorting;returns to skills;cognitive skills;noncognitive skills},
            }