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

TABLE 5.

Trends in the importance of skills.

Required skills Wages


b P N b p N
(SE) (SE)
Self-regulation skills
Working independently 0.001 63,833 0.0002 57,778
(0.004) (0.0002)
Working to plan 0.013 ** 64,429 0.0002 58,298
(0.002) (0.0002)
Alertness 0.005 64,980 −0.0002 58,757
(0.005) (0.0004)
Social skills
Explaining 0.002 64,036 −0.0003 57,963
(0.004) (0.0003)
Collaboration 0.008 ** 63,885 0.0002 57,827
(0.002) (0.0003)
Knowledge and innovation skills
Information gathering 0.005 * 64,979 0.0007 ** 58,752
(0.002) (0.0002)
Creativity 0.006 64,113 0.0003 58,024
(0.003) (0.0002)
Learning ability 0.002 64,082 0.0007 ** 58,000
(0.003) (0.0001)
Logical reasoning 0.021 ** 64,448 0.0007 ** 58,291
(0.002) (0.0002)
Work-related knowledge and skills
Occupation-specific knowledge 0.013 ** 65,588 0.0002 59,250
(0.003) (0.0001)
Interdisciplinary knowledge 0.008 65,215 −0.0002 58,940
(0.005) (0.0002)
Digital literacy 0.014 ** 64,981 0.0005 ** 58,755
(0.003) (0.0002)

*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.