Leadership skills and wages

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Kuhn, P; Weinberger, C
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/430282
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 395-436
• 关键词: Beauty; involvement

摘要

Controlling for cognitive skills, we find that men who occupied leadership positions in high school earn more as adults. The pure leadership-wage effect varies, depending on definitions and time period, from 4% to 33%. This effect is not an artifact of measurement error in cognitive skills or differences in a wide array of other physical or psychological traits. High school leaders are more likely to occupy managerial occupations as adults, and leadership skills command a higher wage premium within managerial occupations than elsewhere. Finally, it appears that leadership skills may be fostered by exposure to high school leadership opportunities.