The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between job mobility and wage mobility. One of the main points of this paper is that job mobility is not necessarily bad. Job mobility might be the quickest way in which workers can advance in their careers and move up in the wage structure....

This paper estimates returns to education using US data. Using the NLS and NLSY79 (dataset) average wages for workers with different ability and educational levels can be estimated. Because of the high correlation between schooling and ability it is not possible to estimate across the entire...

This paper seeks to quantify sources of variation in annual job earnings data collected by the 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and to determine how much of the variation is the result of measurement error. To this end, jobs reported in the SIPP are linked to jobs reported...

This paper contributes to the debate on trade and wages by estimating a GNP function for the United Kingdom using data for the period 1975-1999. Consistent with standard trade theory the GNP function treats factor supplies and output prices as exogenous and factor prices and output supplies as...

A large portion of the rise in the education premium can be explained by a signaling theory of education which predicts that in the future, increases in the education level of the workforce will actually cause the education premium to rise, simply because different workers are being labeled as...

This paper presents new plant-level evidence on the effects of access to international technology diffusion on the demand for skilled workers using data from Investment Climate Surveys performed by the World Bank in Asia and Latin America. Our findings suggest that in Brazil, China and Malaysia...

In the literature on measured wage inequality, only one recent study, by Glaeser and Mare(2001), has focused on the enormous wage gap between urban and non-urban workers in the United States. In the present paper, I replicate and extend Glaeser and Mare's original empirical work, and I present a...

Skill-biased technical change is usually interpreted in terms of the efficiency parameters of skilled and unskilled labor. This implies that the relative productivity of skilled workers changes proportionally in all tasks. In contrast, we argue that technical changes also affect the curvature of...