This paper reviews Jacob Mincer’s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through … theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the pre-Mincer period, and then discusses his analysis of human capital … and earnings developed in his 1957 doctoral dissertation and 1958 Journal of Political Economy (JPE) article. Further …

criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … official languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language …

(the three E’s) for proficiency. It also focuses on the labor market consequences (earnings) of proficiency for immigrants …

acquiring destination language proficiency, with an emphasis on labor market outcomes, and in particular earnings. Factors that …

the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for … schooling that are above that which is usual for a worker's occupation are associated with very low increases in earnings … earnings. This ineffective use of surplus education appears across all occupations and high-skilled education levels. Although …

earnings among adult male Jewish immigrants in Israel, using the 1972 Census of Israel. Among other findings, Hebrew speaking … family structure also matter. Earnings are found to increase with level of schooling, duration in Israel, pre …

This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of adult male Soviet Jewish … of English proficiency and earnings than other immigrants, other variables being the same. However, they have a steeper … improvement in both proficiency and earnings with duration in the United States and the differences from the other European …

augments a conventional human capital earnings function with information on occupations. It also estimates models of … occupational attainment. The results from both the earnings function and model of occupational attainment indicate that the limited …