Sentence examples for proxy for ability from inspiring English sources

Any use of age as a proxy for ability and competence is discriminatory and will penalise people who are perfectly able and capable to go on doing their jobs and contributing to the success of the organisations they work for.

The NLSY79 collects rich information on employment, education, background characteristics, and a proxy for ability, the AFQT.

The AFQT, my proxy for ability, is a multiple choice test that it utilized by the U.S. Military to determine qualification for enlistment in the U.S. Armed Forces.

Test scores taken at adolescence, a proxy for ability, have effects on (adult) occupational status, earnings, unemployment and other labour market outcomes (Marks 2014, pp. 91 112; Warren et al. 2002).

In my core regressions I include a set of personal characteristics that are expected to predict access to employer-sponsored health insurance: age at school-leaving, years of education at school leaving (entered linearly), race/ethnicity (African American and Hispanic, with White as the omitted group), and a proxy for ability (a quadratic in the Armed Forces Qualification Test [AFQT]).

For cross-sectional data17, unobserved heterogeneity can be approximated by using a proxy for ability (Cainarca and Sgobbi 2012; Chevalier 2003; Korpi and Taahlin 2009), splitting the sample into more homogeneous (e.g., in terms of earnings) sub-samples (Budría 2011; McGuinness and Bennett 2007) or controlling for the environment where the individual was raised (Korpi and Taahlin 2009).

Hence, we need a large set of predetermined controls that should include proxies for ability and effort not usually available in observational data.

Particularly in the absence of reliable information on ability as well as if costs to overcome imperfect ability assessments are high, firms may be assumed to take diverse individual characteristics as proxies for ability.

We find that cognitive and noncognitive measures are, overall, weakly associated with the probability of being informal and that the wage gap between formal and informal workers persists even once these proxies for ability are accounted for.

Nordin et al. (2010) using cognitive test scores and Lemieux (2014) using a worker's self-reported rank in their graduating class and enrollment in a co-op program as proxies for ability found they had little impact on the effect of matching when included in their wage regression.

The ability to perform caesarean sections was used as a proxy for the ability to perform life-saving obstetric surgery, an assumption that may be flawed because of differentials in skills to perform life-saving interventions.