are now looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on gender differences in career chances and compare … personality traits, multivariate estimations and the decomposition of the gender career gap clearly indicate that these … inequality of career chances between women and can be explained by differences in personality. Nevertheless, personality traits …

We address the bias from using potential vs. actual experience in earnings models. Statistical tests reject the …. We correct for this by modeling actual experience as a stochastic regressor and predicting experience using the NLSY79 … and the PSID. Predicted experience measures are applied to the IPUMS. Our results suggest that potential experience biases …

differences in achievement into gender differences in endowments and returns to IQ and non-cognitive factors. This descriptive … resources and take similar advantage of these resources. Our findings indicate that gender differences in resources with respect …

and that returns to general experience are assessed at the point of job change. Using the British New Earnings Survey …

cohorts of the baby-boom. Using a survey where workers declare their true employment experience, this paper argues that these … labor force, there is higher unemployment among low-experience workers, they do not accumulate enough on-the-job human … even after the shock. In a competitive market, in contrast, wage inequality and notably, the wage return to experience …

experience and technology adoption and the effect of technological change on the returns to experience. Estimates indicate that … technological change is an important explanation for changes in experience premia. We find a complementarity between existing human …

We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee … market experience and increase with initially unobserved ability, since the employer gradually obtains better information on …

substitution of low education / high experience workers by low experience / high education workers by using US and French microdata … explain the changes in returns to experience. It also accounts for a part of the increase in returns to education between 1980 …: the elasticity of substitution between experience and education, which is found to be less than half. In France, the …

factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men’s and women’s age … about one-third of the narrowing of the gender wage gap over the past 40 years. Under quite general conditions, we argue … that this provides an upper bound estimate of the contribution of changes in work experience and other post …