%0 Report
        %A Edin, Per-Anders
%A Fredriksson, Peter
%A Nybom, Martin
%A Öckert, Björn
        %T The Rising Return to Non-Cognitive Skill
        %D 2017
        %8 2017 Jul
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 10914
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10914
        %X 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. 
        %K wage inequality
%K sorting
%K returns to skills
%K cognitive skills
%K noncognitive skills