-based discrimination. The discrimination we find is rather due to conservatism in updating beliefs. This conservatism is more pronounced in …

We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of … height on life-time earnings for men. Additional findings using capital income as the outcome variable suggest that …

between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey …, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as administrative earnings data. Our results indicate that earnings …

subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market effects may be more imminent for students leaving school directly for the labor … that central exams are indeed associated with higher earnings for students from school types directly bound for the labor …

manufacturing. Earnings losses are larger for individuals with low initial wages, low initial tenure, and low attachment to the … trade shocks. High-wage workers are better able to move across employers with minimal earnings losses, and are more likely …We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through …

college major choices and expected future earnings. In a sample of high ability undergraduates, we find that competitiveness … and overconfidence, but not risk aversion, is systematically related with expectations about future earnings: individuals … who are overconfident and overly competitive have significantly higher earnings expectations. Moreover, gender differences …

We use data on twins matched to register-based information on earnings to examine the long-standing puzzle of non …

that high school achievement measures can account for much of the racial gaps in BA completion and earnings and some of the … gaps by family background, though they account for little of the continuing gender gap favoring young men in earnings. …

earnings among individuals into the part due to changes in earnings among establishments and the part due to changes in … earnings within-establishments and finds that much of the 1970s-2010s increase in earnings inequality results from increased … dispersion of the earnings among the establishments where individuals work. It also shows that the divergence of establishment …