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 …

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over …

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 …

strong cross-firm association of FDI wage premia with similar differentials in productivity. …

We use data on twins matched to register-based information on earnings to examine the long-standing puzzle of non …-existent compensating wage differentials. The use of twin data allows us to remove otherwise unobserved productivity differences that were …

for earnings mobility and growth; for the majority, however, self-employment remains constrained to low-productivity … impact of market forces favoring human capital accumulation on the formation of earnings. Today, a large and growing fraction … agricultural or trading activities, with little earnings stability and little potential for long term earnings growth. Prospects …

-specific characteristics (particularly earnings differentials) on physician location decisions. We find, among other things, that high-productivity … migrate. We build a model in which individuals sort, in part, on potential earnings - where earnings across different … fee-for-service basis. Since wage rates are exogenous, earning differentials are driven by differences in productivity. We …

effect of concentrations on the immigrant’s language skills, as well as the effects on immigrant earnings of destination … language skills. Moreover, immigrant’s earnings are lower the lower their English-language proficiency and the greater the … linguistic concentration in their origin language of the area in which they live. The adverse effects on earnings of poor …

concerned with the distribution of wages, earnings or income and have been performed by different strands in the literature …, mainly in public and in labor economics. We summarize these strands with a special focus on earnings which itself is the …

This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly …. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of observed and randomly matched couples are compared to each other …. Earnings of hypothetical couples are adjusted for changes in hours worked given the differences in the household context using …