policies in China. We find that again consistent with the agency view, earnings-tenure profiles are considerably steeper for … in accounting for upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles; our findings strongly support the agency view. Our second area … find that earnings-tenure profiles for employee owners are not upward-sloping but horizontal. In addition we find that pay-performance …

We provide empirical support for the contention that within-job wage growth relates purely to job-specific performance … and that returns to general experience are assessed at the point of job change. Using the British New Earnings Survey …

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language proficiency and …

This paper reviews Jacob Mincer?s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through … theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the pre-Mincer period, and then discusses his analysis of human capital … and earnings developed in his 1957 doctoral dissertation and 1958 Journal of Political Economy (JPE) article. Further …

criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …

We examine the impact of parental education on the shape of an individual's experience-earnings profile. A number of … earnings. Our empirical analysis of US data suggests that this is indeed the case. Higher parental education shifts the … earnings profile significantly to the left - the profile of individuals with parents who both have 15 years of education peaks …

In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand earnings distribution. In the years since Mincer … enhances earnings; why earnings rise at a diminishing rate throughout one?s life; why earnings growth is smaller for those …, the paper shows that Mincer?s original finding of a U-shaped (log) variance of earnings over the life cycle is upheld in …

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