How worker productivity evolves with tenure and experience is central to economics, shaping, for example, life …-cycle earnings and the losses from involuntary job separation. Yet, worker-level productivity is hard to identify from observational …-the-job tenure from total experience in determining productivity growth. Several findings emerge concerning the initial period on the …

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 …

evolution of earnings inequality is what we refer to as the canonical model, which elegantly and powerfully operationalizes the …-monotone changes in wages at different parts of the earnings distribution during different decades; (3) broad-based increases in … for analyzing how recent changes in the earnings and employment distribution in the United States and other advanced …