We analyze the effect of a wife’s human capital on her husband’s earnings, using individual-level data for Japan in the … period 2000–2003. We find a positive association between a wife’s education and her husband’s earnings, which can be … suggestive evidence that educated wives increase their husbands’ productivity and earnings only when they are non-workers and …

-related training on earnings levels. Different measures for general and specific training are constructed from available information …. The analysis diverges from the standard fixed effects framework for earnings determination modelling and presents evidence … effects formulation for the earnings equation suggested by Nijman and Verbeek (1992) for controlling for attrition bias in …

immigrants, while most of the gap is unexplained. Individuals without German citizenship have a 15,8 percent difference. Here …

This paper estimates the multi-dimensional human capital endowments of immigrants by characterizing their occupational … measure directly. Estimation implies that immigrants as a whole are abundant in cognitive ability and scarce in experience … preventing immigration is 3.2% higher wages, but the largest loss is 0.3% lower wages. Crowding of immigrants into select …

return motivations of a national sample of Australian immigrants. On average, a 10% favorable exchange rate shock (a …

Since 2002, the British Government department responsible for immigration, the Home Office, has claimed immigrants pay … additional infrastructure investments that immigrants necessitate (no small omission). The conventional wisdom is that funding … business assets that immigrants necessitate. The important distinction is not between public and private sector assets, but …

-2000. For the better part of US history, blacks have enjoyed less access to schooling for their children than whites. This paper … wealth! For these divisions from 1960-2000 blacks have attained rough parity in schooling access. The welfare magnitudes are …