This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … 1980s Indian premium is mainly due to higher returns to education and experience, a combination of price and endowment … by the observed convergence in returns to education; the endowment effect is driven by faster increase in education …

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

This paper studies the causal effects of graduating from university with an honors degree on subsequent earnings. While … very top of the education distribution. We highlight the importance of honors degrees for future labor market success in … find that students of law who passed the state bar exam with an honors degree receive a significant earnings premium of …

remaining differences in wage levels and growth rates. We find that much of the average earnings gap between foreign and … find a two to four percent earnings gap between workers in domestic and foreign-owned firms. This gap is primarily … domestically-owned firms do not appear to retain the additional earnings in their subsequent jobs. We then consider whether foreign …

higher education improves, further boosting employment in the long run. These positive effects help counteracting the …

the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household …

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

important effects of family characteristics and residential location on educational attainment and adult earnings in Norway …

The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in … Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European … marginal return to the marginal cost of education - we speculate that either marginal costs are steeper in Italy or that a …