occupational segregation. Using micro-data from the Greek Labour Force Survey (LFS), the returns to academic disciplines are …, Humanities) are also those with the lowest wage returns. Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions subsequently imply that gender differences … in the type of degree studied can explain an additional 8.4% of the male-female pay gap. Risk-augmented earnings …

destination language skills are highly rewarded by wage returns and higher employment probabilities and act as the medium of …

returns to education. As in western economies, computers are adopted most heavily by young, educated, English-speaking workers …, we find much larger returns to individuals from computer adoption than have been found in established market economies …. The large returns are explainable by the high cost of adoption and the scarcity of computer skills. As of 2000, only 14 …

We examine the impact of political turnover on economic performance in a setting of largely unanticipated political …

We use British household panel data to explore the wage returns to training incidence and intensity (duration) for 6924 … employees. We find these returns differ greatly depending on the nature of the training (general or specific); who funds the …

By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of worker performance, we provide some of … find that earnings-tenure profiles for employee owners are not upward-sloping but horizontal. In addition we find that pay-performance …

country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country’s macroeconomic performance. After a …

traits on performance. We find that more neurotic subjects perform worse, and that more conscientious individuals perform … affect the impact of the Big Five personality traits on performance. …