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. …

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 …

We consider differences in current job tenure of individuals using linked employee and workplace data. This enables us … to distinguish between variation in tenure associated with the characteristics of individual employees and those of the … the workplace effect, however, this is not true for women and non-white employees. We find that the lower tenure …

tenure and working in big firms receive severance payments. There is a huge variance in the size of the payments, which can … only partly be explained by tenure, the wage, firm size and the region. At least one quarter of dismissed employees is …