finding is predicted by the tournament model in which rewards are based on relative performance instead of absolute … performance. …

in China. Exploiting province and time variation, we find a strong positive impact on cognition for girls and no effects …

stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion … that rising earnings inequality is, at least in part, supply driven by rising skill inequality. …

earnings distributionsdifferently, empirical identification of these potential sources forthe explanation of wage and …

markets is considered. It is shown thatethnic minorities fromdeveloping countries have a positive effect on the earnings of … minoritiesfrom EU-countries may havea negative effect on the earnings of high skilled natives and a positive effecton the earnings of … low skillednatives. Secondly, the effect of an immigration flow by 5% of the total labourforce on native earnings …