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 …

We propose a simple test that uses information on workers' mobility, wages and firms' profits to identify the sign and … agents' payoffs are increasing in their own types, our test exploits within-firm variation on wages to rank workers by their …

Using Difference-in-Differences estimation and data from the European Community Household Panel, this paper suggests …

paradata. Fraction answered captures a third of the effect of cognitive ability on wages and education. We provide a simple …

rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the estimation of the effect of overeducation on earnings. Oaxaca …

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

This paper is among the firsts to investigate the impact of overeducation and overskilling on workers' wages using a …