Since I am left-handed, this story happened to intrigue me.
(Source: Reuters)
Left-handed men, enjoy much better paydays than their right handed counterparts, a new study says.
Left-handed men with at least some college education earned 15 percent more than similarly educated right-handers, while those who finished college earned about 26 percent more, wrote Christopher S. Ruebeck of Lafayette College, and Joseph Harrington and Robert Moffitt of Johns Hopkins University in a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
The people writing the paper didn't give a reason for the higher earning either...is it because we are always in our right mind? (Sorry. Couldn't resist.) So, according to this paper... if you go for a new job interview, you just let them know you are left-handed and you'll get a better pay day! Imagine...
"Hi, my name is Jack and I've got all the qualifications you're looking for...including the fact that I'm left-handed."
"Well, congratulations, Jack, you're hired! And we've given you a bigger payday than Bill here, because he's right handed."
That's comedy!
A copy of the working paper can be purchased for about $5 at http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12387.pdf
(Wonder if the researchers are left-handed?)
Enjoying this left-handed compliment,
CH
2 comments:
Now that is a really good reason to start over left handed.... Thanks for the info - cheers
I'm sensing a bias here, my friend. What about left-handed WOMEN??? Didn't the paper say anything about us?
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