Women in Britain who work part-time have, on average, hourly earnings about 25% less than that of women working full …

. Instrumental variables and quantile treatment effects estimates of the returns to an occupa- ional license indicate excess wages … acquisition that suggests that the wages of high-skilled immigrant physicians in the non-physician sector outweigh the lower … service. The positive earnings effect of entry restrictions far outweighs the lower practitioner quality earnings effect that …

This paper studies the impact of income inequality on fiscal conservatism when an increase in inequality affects the … bottom portion of income distribution. It is argued that, contrary to what is generally assumed in the economic literature … of income distribution and possibly lead to multiple steady states. The existence, under some conditions, of a dynamic …

attainment, income, and measures of credit constraints. We perform a series of additional robustness checks, which help rule out …

Germany, analyses how individual men and women access jobs given their family background, and investigates why men and women … occupational choice for the children of immigrants as well as for natives. Our findings are surprisingly similar for both natives … choice, and that individuals with more education choose higher-ranking jobs. The role of experience is important for natives …

attainment, income, and measures of credit constraints. We perform a series of additional robustness checks, which help rule out …

, and uses these variables as instruments to estimate returns to education, with the help of a rich set of individual data …. Our sample includes more than 12,000 men and 10,000 women, who all left school in 1992, in France. The wages and … educational achievements of individuals, as well as many aspects of family background, including birth order, number of sisters …

of Sweden in 2000, we estimate the effect of education on stock market participation and risky asset holdings. We find …We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial … markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people …

from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Using the same approach we also find that income growth is negatively affected by the … initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …