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. 2020 Jul 16;11:1710. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01710

TABLE 4.

Importance of skills in 2004 (intercept).

Required skills Wages


b P N b p N
(SE) (SE)
Self-regulation skills
Working independently 1.694 ** 63,833 0.006 ** 57,778
(0.032) (0.001)
Working to plan 0.690 ** 64,429 0.003 58,298
(0.016) (0.002)
Alertness 1.336 ** 64,980 0.015 ** 58,757
(0.035) (0.003)
Social skills
Explaining 1.504 ** 64,036 0.017 ** 57,963
(0.029) (0.002)
Collaboration 1.269 ** 63,885 0.002 57,827
(0.011) (0.002)
Knowledge and innovation skills
Information gathering 1.145 ** 64,979 0.006 ** 58,752
(0.015) (0.001)
Creativity 1.033 ** 64,113 0.004 * 58,024
(0.023) (0.002)
Learning ability 1.161 ** 64,082 0.004 ** 58,000
(0.024) (0.001)
Logical reasoning 1.360 ** 64,448 0.007 ** 58,291
(0.022) (0.002)
Work-related knowledge and skills
Occupation-specific knowledge 1.088 ** 65,588 0.014 ** 59,250
(0.023) (0.001)
Interdisciplinary knowledge 0.383 ** 65,215 0.006 ** 58,940
(0.038) (0.002)
Digital literacy 0.796 ** 64,981 0.002 * 58,755
(0.021) (0.001)

* p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01. Note. All analyses include controls for gender, age, broad field of study and region of work f (see Supplementary Appendix A, Tables A1, A2 for details). The stars that indicate the level of significance have to be put closer to the parameters.