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 …

The purpose of this study is to estimate whether sexual activity is associated with wages, and also to estimate … potential interactions between individuals' characteristics, wages and sexual activity. The central hypothesis behind this …'s set of productive traits that affect wages. Using two stage estimations we examine the relationship between adult sexual …

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 …

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