height on life-time earnings for men. Additional findings using capital income as the outcome variable suggest that …We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of … height on life-time labor market outcomes. The use of twin data allows us to remove otherwise unobserved ability and other …

height on life-time earnings for men. Additional findings using capital income as the outcome variable suggest that …We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of … height on life-time labor market outcomes. The use of twin data allows us to remove otherwise unobserved ability and other …

of English skills on labour market status and, conditional on being a wage earner, on monthly earnings and occupational … level of skills in English and earnings, which is only modestly reduced when job-related variables and (especially …) occupation dummies are included as additional controls. Indeed, being proficient in English barely affects occupational status …

augments a conventional human capital earnings function with information on occupations. It also estimates models of … occupational attainment. The results from both the earnings function and model of occupational attainment indicate that the limited …

native born and foreign born, as reported in the 2000 Census, one percent sample. Working in an occupation that requires … job, has a large effect on earnings among the native born, and an even larger effect among the foreign born. This effect …, are held constant. Earnings increase with the respondent’s own proficiency in English, with the English proficiency …

augments a conventional human capital earnings function with information on occupations. It also estimates models of … occupational attainment. The results from both the earnings function and model of occupational attainment indicate that the limited …

This paper examines the determinants of occupational attainment and the impact of occupation on earnings. Results for … earnings gains associated with years of schooling derives from inter-occupational mobility. When occupation is held constant … both the native born and foreign born are presented, and these provide insights as to the earnings penalties associated …

different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of … the focus on early-career earnings leads to underestimating the lifetime returns to skills by about one quarter. On … States. Estimates are remarkably robust to different earnings and skill measures, additional controls, and various subgroups …