principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second … growth in the variance of residual wages over the first ten years of the worker's career are also the occupations with high …

' wages only. Findings for personality traits are more heterogeneous. There however is a robust wage penalty for an external …

while some school characteristics are positive and significant predictors of future wages for Whites, they are less so for …

The paper examines the labour quality explanation of the employer size-wage gap: larger firms pay higher wages because … they employ more skilled workers. Most previous studies control for unobserved skills of workers using longitudinal data … skills in the sample of moonlighters does not reduce the estimate of the wage gap. …

Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and … outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the … real wage for workers in the lowest skill categories by up to 1.8% while it increased real wages for high-skilled workers …

taking the initial conditions problem and potential endogeneity of panel attrition into account. In line with results from …

conditions. The issue of wage arrears (unpaid wages or outstanding pay), which a_ects half of all employees, plays an important … role in the determination of wages. Studies, which do not account for wage arrears, overestimate the overall inter …

regressions suggest that mechanics abilities are correlated with wages in a significantly positive way for West German workers …