The labor market increasingly rewards social skills. Between 1980 and 2012, jobs requiring
high levels of social interaction grew by nearly 12 percentage points as a share of the US …

The goal of this study was to test the effectiveness of a workplace intervention targeting work‐
life stress and safety‐related psychosocial risk factors on health and safety outcomes. Data …

Do workers vary in their ability to work with others? I compare a given worker's productivity in
solitary production to their value-added to team production to identify team skills: a worker's …

The prevalence and stability of marriage has declined in the United States as the economic
lives of men and women have converged. Family change has not been uniform, however …

This paper examines whether personality influences the allocation of resources within
households. To do so, I model households as couples who make Pareto-efficient allocations …

This thesis examines a skill-based explanation of the gender wage gap in the light of social
skills' increasing importance on the labour market, bridging the gap between two prominent …

Although communicative and relational skills are currently in the greatest demand in
organizations large and small, we are as educators, executives, and talent developers very …

Do we need soft skills? Why? Why do organizations value them? What is the specific source
of value individuals who have them bring? Why do those deemed executives comprise an …

This thesis presents three essays on employment and wage polarization in Brazil. Each
essay addresses a different theme in this context. The first essay aims to analyze why the …

In this study, I argue that soft skills will be crucial in the current and the future of the high
technology labor market because of the intelligent machine's inability to respond to …