This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to … 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 …

private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill …-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level …

The literature that tests for U-shaped relationships using panel data, such as those between pollution and income or …

satisfaction. We use subjective survey information about job satisfaction and the fit between the migrant's education and skill … level and the job. We also use objective information on professional level. Our estimation strategy allows for unobservable … exploits the panel nature of our data, by allowing for time persistent random effects. We use a variety of different …

matched firm-worker panel data sample for French manufacturing, we find that the industry distributions of the rent …

consumption.Next, we estimate this dynamic consumption equation for a panel of 15 OECD countries over the period 1972-2007 taking … simulations. The estimation results support the labour-consumption complementarity hypothesis but not the other forms of …