The Mincer earnings function is the cornerstone of a large literature in empirical economics. This paper discusses the … more general model differ substantially from inferences drawn from estimates based on a Mincer earnings regression …

Numerous studies regress log earnings on schooling and report estimated coefficients as Mincer rates of return. A more …

While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others … and western China for 1995 and 2002. For 2002, persons of high rank make up 3 percent and persons of middle rank make up …

the 80s and the beginning of the 90s on its effect on earnings. We separate the analysis between Swedish-born and foreign …

internal rates of return that take into account tuition costs, income taxes and nonlinearities in the earnings …