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 analyze the joint determination of wage levels, wage growth and firm tenure. Our analysis is built on estimating a … reduced form for tenure, a structural wage level equation and a structural wage growth equation. We disentangle returns to a … latent type variable from estimates of general returns to tenure and wage gains from job changes. This type is related to …

This paper reviews Jacob Mincer?s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through … theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the pre-Mincer period, and then discusses his analysis of human capital … and earnings developed in his 1957 doctoral dissertation and 1958 Journal of Political Economy (JPE) article. Further …