We investigate the effect of height on earnings, occupational choices and a subjective measure of well-being among … labor market. Cognitive skills, co-determined with stature early in life, do not explain much of the height earnings premium … require brain and social skills, not brawn. The unexplained share of the height earnings premium reflects other labor market …

shareholders by examining their impact on the informativeness of firms' earnings. Design/methodology/approach - We use regression … models that relate earnings to stock returns for a sample of 402 French publicly traded firms covered during 2003 …-2007. Findings - We show that earnings informativeness is significantly positively related to the owner's ultimate cash flow rights …

workers' choice between self-employment and wage employment in Vietnam. We emphasize the role of expected earnings … Vietnam. Regardless of educational attainment, experiences and familial background, perspective of having higher earnings …

This paper uses household survey (Sakernas) data from 2004 to estimate the determinants of earnings in Indonesia, a … country where non-salaried work is widespread and where earnings data are available for salaried employees only. We deal with … the selection bias by estimating a full-information maximum likelihood system of equations, where earnings are observed …

have substantially affected reported earnings. Using the factSet/JCF database that collects 2005 earnings forecast based on … sophisticated enough to anticipate the impact of the new accounting rules on the determination of earnings. …

This article examines the link between restrictions on the number of physicians and general practitioners' earnings … at manipulating the number of places in medical schools strongly affect physicians' permanent level of earnings ….We estimate an earnings function to identify experience, time and cohort effects. The cohort effect is very large: the estimated …

prospect for the labour market for scientists, and other papers, which showed earnings differences between engineering … earnings for researchers, is still valid. The data used in this study is similar to that in our former work. The data is … first part of the study, earnings of engineers working in R&D will be compared with those of the other engineers. Using …

using a list of thirty skills. Complementary models are used in this research, relating to earnings and the distribution of … dimensions show that traditional human capital variables are important determinants for earnings, whereas competences explain the …