The author investigates how deregulation designed to promote competition in the commercial banking industry affected the compensation structure for banking employees. Using establishment-based data from the Employment Cost Index (ECI) Survey and, secondarily, Current Population Survey (CPS)...

The author examines an exogenous difference in the timing of academic specialization within the British system of higher education to test whether education yields information about one?s match quality in different fields of study. In distinguishing between systems requiring early and late...