for a wide range of human capital variables, including cognitive skills, we find that on average wage profiles do reflect … productivity profiles. However, wages are steeper in large and unionized firms. This suggests that human capital theory holds for …

wages, while paying special attention to the mobility after training. …

The existing literature on training is concerned with understanding the reasons why firms pay for the general skills of … acquisition of complementary specific skills by the worker. …

reciprocity and individual wages. However, the direction of causality is unclear. Various aspects of the distribution of the … reciprocity have a positive effect on wages, while the spread in the distribution (standard deviation) has a strong significant …

lesser-studied and more direct effect of household activities on wages. In a broad economic sense, household activities … require effort, which decreases labour market productivity and thus wages. This paper first documents the relationship between … housework and wages in Britain and applies a variety of econometric techniques to pin down the effect of housework on wages. It …