various years to examine the relationship between cohort-level private schooling rates and later earnings during adulthood. We … attainment. We find a significant positive relationship between private schooling rates and adult earnings for women but a small …

We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings by employer spanning close to two decades. Individuals who in 1991 … worked in manufacturing industries that experienced high subsequent import growth garner lower cumulative earnings, face …

Current Employment Statistics (CES) imply that average hourly real earnings has mostly stagnated and become substantially less … volatile. We show that differences in earnings concept and differences in worker coverage account for the majority of this …

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over …

criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …

explain sexual orientation differences in earnings, gay men would need to be less competitive than other men and lesbian women … data, we show that competitiveness is a significant predictor of earnings. Differences in competitiveness can account for a … significant portion of the gay earnings penalty, but cannot explain the lesbian premium. …

career success as denoted by occupational status, linked to earnings. This is the first application of this analysis to New … native-born populations and provide evidence on the mediating effect of occupational attainment on earnings. Our analyses …, and much of its effect on earnings is through occupational attainment; different immigrant groups have differentiable …

The current study examines earnings differences for practicing lawyers by undergraduate major with a focus on economics … majors. Some majors do much better than others. Economics majors tend to do very well in both median and mean earnings, and …

While it is well known that birth order affects educational attainment, less is known about its effects on earnings …