A study from Linkoping University in Sweden, published in the peer-reviewed journal European Sociological Review, has found that high-earning individuals do not necessarily have higher intelligence than those in lower-paying jobs.
We find no evidence that those with top jobs that pay extraordinary wages are more deserving than those who earn only half those wages, wrote the authors of the study.
Smart work is not enough to earn higher in a job, reveals a Swedish survey which found that occupational success can also be driven by family resources or merely luck
It pays to be smart, or so the saying goes. But the biggest earners may not be the workers who are the brainiest, according to one recent Swedish study.
"We find no evidence that those with top jobs that pay extraordinary wages are more deserving than those who earn only half those wages," wrote the authors of a new study.