find that earnings-tenure profiles for employee owners are not upward-sloping but horizontal. In addition we find that pay-performance …By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of worker performance, we provide some of …-tenure profiles. Most importantly we provide the first direct test of the relative validity of human capital and agency explanations …

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance …

The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and … important in gender wage gap studies that employ individual data. This paper explicitly concentrates on labor market … institutions that are related to female lifetime work that affect the gender wage gap across countries. Using ISSP (International …

important for analyzing women's post-school human capital accumulation, residual wage inequality, and the gender pay gap …

use new sources, homogenize definitions of what a migrant is, and compute gender-disaggregated indicators of the brain … drain. Emigration stocks and rates are provided by level of schooling and gender for 195 source countries in 1990 and 2000 … higher rates of brain drain than men. The gender gap in skilled migration is strongly correlated with the gender gap in …

a smaller gender wage gap as male-female lifetime work expectations become more similar. The model explains why relative …