achieved human capital do not significantly influence immigrant wages in Hamamatsu. Instead, ascribed human capital (e ….g., gender, ethnicity) has a much greater impact on immigrant wages in Japan than in the United States. Although the use of … social networks by immigrants to find jobs has a significant impact on wages in both countries, the effect is positive in …

interpersonal interactions are important determinants of labor-market outcomes, including occupations and wages. We show that … the late 1970s and early 1990s can help explain why women's wages increased more rapidly, while the wages of blacks grew …

life and possibly also on wages. …

between preferences and wages is key. To overcome this restriction, we propose a flexible estimation strategy that nests … elasticities derived from microeconometric models can also be explained by modeling assumptions with respect to wages. Specifically … very sensitive to the treatment of wages. In particular, the often-made but highly restrictive independence assumption …

We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms …

that results are very sensitive to the treatment of hourly wages in the estimation. For example, different (sensible …) choices concerning the modeling of the underlying wage distribution and especially the imputation of (missing) wages lead to …