policies in China. We find that again consistent with the agency view, earnings-tenure profiles are considerably steeper for … in accounting for upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles; our findings strongly support the agency view. Our second area … find that earnings-tenure profiles for employee owners are not upward-sloping but horizontal. In addition we find that pay-performance …

We provide empirical support for the contention that within-job wage growth relates purely to job-specific performance … and that returns to general experience are assessed at the point of job change. Using the British New Earnings Survey …

increase in the variability of transitory earnings. …

The idea that wages rise relative to alternatives as job seniority accumulates is the foundation of the theory of … individuals to the combination of wages, job tenure, and experience that are observed in survey data. Allowing for sources of bias … generated by these decisions, this paper uses longitudinal data to estimate a lower bound on the avenge return to job seniority …

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language proficiency and …