Wages grow but also become more unequal as workers age. Using German administrative data, we largely attribute both … independence. In short, they climb the career ladder. Climbing the career ladder explains 50% of wage growth and virtually all of … rising wage dispersion. The increasing gender wage gap by age parallels a rising hierarchy gap. Our findings suggest that …

A well-established stylised fact is that employer provided job-related training raises productivity and wages. Using UK … employers. We also find that there is a positive, albeit quantitatively small, relationship between wage inequality and training … very effective in reducing inequality, measured as the distance between skilled and unskilled wages and incomes. …

profiles. Our study also explains the willingness of immigrants to accept jobs at wages that seem unacceptable to natives …

In this paper we study how labor market duality affects human capital accumulation and wage trajectories of young … experience accumulated under different contractual arrangements and we estimate their wage returns. We document lower returns to … back life-cycle wage growth by up to 16 percentage points after 15 years since labor market entry. …

This paper examines how and why returning to education fosters recovery from negative employment shocks among high …

threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual …

The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and … unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …

endogenize the demand and supply of skills. We explicitly introduce the costs and externalities in education, and examine how …