Non-cognitive skills and labour market performance of immigrants

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dc.authoridAkay, Alpaslan/0000-0002-8543-9607
dc.contributor.authorAkay, Alpaslan
dc.contributor.authorYilmaz, Levent
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-20T08:42:14Z
dc.date.available2025-02-20T08:42:14Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.departmentTürk-Alman Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper investigates how non-cognitive skills relate to the relative labour market performance of immigrants. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Five-Factor Model of personality as a proxy for the non-cognitive skills, we show that these skills matter for the labour market integration of immigrants in the host country. We use two comparison benchmarks. Compared to an average native, immigrants' non-cognitive skills, e.g., extroversion or emotional stability, can lead to 5-15 percentage points lower lifetime employment probability disadvantage implying a better overall integration. Comparing immigrants and natives with the same type and level of non-cognitive skills suggests that returns of extroversion and openness to experience are higher among immigrants, leading to 3-5 percentage points lower lifetime employment probability disadvantage. These results are robust with respect to self-selection, non-random returns to the home country, stability of personality, and estimators. Our detailed analysis suggests that non-cognitive skills (especially extroversion) are substitutes for the standard human capital measures (e.g., formal education and training) among low educated immigrants, while there is no significant relative return of non-cognitive skills among highly educated immigrants.
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity of Gothenburg
dc.description.sponsorshipWe appreciate the financial support from the University of Gothenburg. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. All funding sources are mentioned withing the paper.
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0281048
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.issue5en_US
dc.identifier.pmid37134081
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85158866484
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281048
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12846/1591
dc.identifier.volume18en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000984892100005
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMed
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPublic Library Science
dc.relation.ispartofPlos One
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_WOS_20250220
dc.subject5 Personality Dimensionsen_US
dc.subjectJob-Performanceen_US
dc.subjectTraitsen_US
dc.subjectStabilityen_US
dc.subjectEarningsen_US
dc.subjectAbilitiesen_US
dc.subjectReturnsen_US
dc.subjectSatisfactionen_US
dc.subjectPredictorsen_US
dc.subjectPsychologyen_US
dc.titleNon-cognitive skills and labour market performance of immigrants
dc.typeArticle

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