How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance …

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

We examine the impact of parental education on the shape of an individual's experience-earnings profile. A number of … earnings. Our empirical analysis of US data suggests that this is indeed the case. Higher parental education shifts the … earnings profile significantly to the left - the profile of individuals with parents who both have 15 years of education peaks …

the dynamics of consumption, hours, and earnings of two earners in the presence of correlated wage shocks, non …, earnings, assets and consumption. We focus on the importance of family labour supply as an insurance mechanism to wage shocks …

to seniority are small, and for some education groups are close to zero. The specification here is the same as that used … in Buchinsky, Foug¨re, Kramarz and Tchernis (2002), where the returns to seniority were found to be quite large. This …-mobility country such as the United States, high returns to seniority have a clear incentive effect, and firms are induced to pay the …

links between statistical discrimination, mobility, tenure and wage profiles. The model assumes that it is more costly for …

country. We also consider the earnings implications of these immigrant networks for recent arrivals. The empirical evidence … positive effect on their hourly wage and their level of weekly earnings. …