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

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the … human capital, for immigrants and natives, in explaining inter-occupational and intra-occupational earnings progression … mainly driven by intra-occupational earnings progression. Moreover, and contrary to what is observed for natives, we detect …

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 …

the most rigorous evidence to date on several related dimensions of enduring debates surrounding upward-sloping earnings … in accounting for upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles; our findings strongly support the agency view. Our second area … of interest concerns employee ownership (many workers at our case are employee owners). Consistent with agency theory we …

enrollment in community colleges on students’ subsequent earnings. I estimate the effects of credits earned separate from …

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 …

selection issues are considered in the estimation of the earnings equation. The result that there is a Apremium@ to work …

In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand earnings distribution. In the years since Mincer … enhances earnings; why earnings rise at a diminishing rate throughout one’s life; why earnings growth is smaller for those …, the paper shows that Mincer’s original finding of a U-shaped (log) variance of earnings over the life cycle is upheld in …

We examine the impact of parental education on the shape of an individual's experience-earnings profile. A number of … earnings. Our empirical analysis of US data suggests that this is indeed the case. Higher parental education shifts the … earnings profile significantly to the left – the profile of individuals with parents who both have 15 years of education peaks …

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