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Handedness and Earnings

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Christopher S. Ruebeck
Joseph E. Harrington, Jr
Robert Moffitt

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We examine whether handedness is related to performance in the labor market and, in particular, earnings. Though handedness is not found to be significantly related to earnings for the population as a whole, there is a significant wage effect for left-handed men with high levels of education. This positive wage effect is strongest among those who have lower than average earnings relative to those of similar high education. This effect is not found among women.

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Paper provided by The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics in its series Economics Working Paper Archive with number 533.

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Date of creation: Jun 1997
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  1. Paul Frijters & David W. Johnston & Manisha Shah & Michael A. Shields, 2008. "Early Child Development and Maternal Labor Force Participation: Using Handedness as an Instrument," NCER Working Paper Series 27, National Centre for Econometric Research. [Downloadable!]
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