We study marital sorting on academic qualifications and latent ability in an equilibrium marriage market model using … shift in the distribution of academic qualifications in affected cohorts, but plausibly had no impact on the distribution of … ability. We show that a Choo and Siow (2006) model with sorting on cohort, qualifications, and latent ability is identified …

The employability of an aging population in a world of continuous and biased technical change is top of the political … resulting in permanent non-employability of older workers. We analyze this phenomenon in a putty-putty human capital vintage …

-displaced workers. We then use a difference-in-difference strategy to analyze employment and earnings of older relative to prime …

future employability. We apply a structural model to data from the Third Wave of the European Quality of Life Survey … associated with lower (higher) perceived employability for both permanent workers and fixed-term workers. In addition, stricter …

dynamic state formation process in the context of Scotland within the UK. First, we review the recent research in economic … history on the persistence and evolution of such fundamentals. Second, we consider the history of Scotland both before and … fundamental persistence for current debates on the place of Scotland within the UK. …

evidence from a policy intervention, that universalized previously means-tested caregiving supports in Scotland, known as free …

market. Our difference-in-difference model estimates whether the earnings difference between individuals with high and low … grades differs between central and local exams. We find that the earnings premium for a one standard-deviation increase in …

In this paper we investigate the relationship between earnings and charitable giving. We set up a real effort … want to donate a share of their earnings to a charity of their choice. We find that, despite large differences in earnings … givers in the two groups give the same share of their total earnings. Charities receive the same average donation from …

different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of … the focus on early-career earnings leads to underestimating the lifetime returns to skills by about one quarter. On … States. Estimates are remarkably robust to different earnings and skill measures, additional controls, and various subgroups …