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 …

job titles, wage rates, and earnings for all employees. We examine initial job assignments, mobility between departments … departments and jobs within the firm as a Markov process. The estimated transition probabilities imply that expected seniority is …

, interestingly, not found to be relevant in the Australian context. Substantial gender earnings gaps (and glass ceilings) are … established, with these earnings gaps found to be predominantly related to women receiving lower returns to their observable …

This paper examines change in wage gaps in urban China by estimating quantile regressions on CHIPS data. It applies the …

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

considerable growth in earnings; others can hardly maintain their entry salaries. This article sheds light on the mechanisms … generating the observed heterogeneity in earnings progression by investigating the effects of on-the-job human capital … acquisition, explicit short-run incentives and career concern incentives on earnings progression. The model leads to predictions …

As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working … from a marked wage decline before entering the temporary help sector. Nevertheless, temporary agency employment does not …

substantial gender earnings gaps, and evidence of glass ceilings, in both sectors. The earnings gaps amongst the higher income …

sector wage setting and trade unions, in determining earnings differences across different types of employment. To do this we … use the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study data from South Africa, which show extremely large average earnings … the earnings differentials within the private sector, including the union premium, but cannot explain the large premiums …