% less chance of being self-employed than one without. In addition, we show that factors such as longer stay in USA and being …

Married individuals match with spouses who share their occupation more frequently than predicted by chance, suggesting … either a preference for same-occupation matches or lower search costs within occupation. To distinguish between these … explanations, we use a differences-in-differences strategy that compares the difference in wages between same-occupation husbands …

contribution is to allow endogeneity of both education and occupation by estimating a quasi-maximum-likelihood discrete factor … administrative registers for 1998-2002. We generally find an independent role of both education and occupation on temporary work …, the effects of education and occupation on permanent work incapacity are generally insignificant. …

native born and foreign born, as reported in the 2000 Census, one percent sample. Working in an occupation that requires … required for the occupation, and when those with high levels of proficiency work in jobs requiring English language skills … occupation’s requirements, and this matching does tend to occur in the labor market. …

period 1991- 2001 we show that perhaps one-quarter of women moving from full- to part-time work move to an occupation at a … within the occupation is far more important than the presence of a pre-school child in determining whether a woman moves to a … lower-level occupation. These findings indicate a loss of economic efficiency through the underutilisation of the skills of …

occupation explain the main part of this gap and seem to lead to a permanent wage disadvantage throughout the early career. …