-based determinations of wages. Special emphasis is given to the effects of human capital variables, such as education, experience, and … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers … appropriate their productivity gains of education through wages. On the other hand, workers with more experience are more …

distribution of earnings inequality since 1996. This paper shows the following results. First, education has the highest gross … contribution in explaining changes in earnings distribution. Second, both changes in the distribution of education and in the …. Specifically, when the income profile effect related to education became steeper and the inequality of education increased, the …

, productivity growth increases with North-South trade-related technology diffusion and education and the interaction between the two …, and decreases with the brain drain. Second, the impact of North-South trade-related technology diffusion, education, and …