/methodology/approach – This article aims to estimate the effect that using an additional language at work has on earnings for a sample of workers … in the European Community Household Panel survey. OLS and fixed-effects specifications of log-earnings regressions are … indicate that the use of a second language in the workplace raises earnings by 3 to 5 percent in several Western European …

-employment, relative to continued wage employment, on earnings and employment opportunities in 2006. The paper also identifies the type of … associated with lower earnings and difficulties in returning to paid employment. Practical implications – The results indicate …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that the effects of industry regulation on worker earnings are … legislation opposed by the industry did not affect earnings growth relative to industries not subject to regulatory legislation …. Legislation supported by the industry led to slower relative earnings growth. Union wage differentials increased in industries …

Purpose – There is now a large amount of literature on immigrants' relative earnings and immigrants' earnings … earnings gap between different groups of immigrants and natives at different parts of the earnings distribution in Sweden … are differences in the earnings gap between different groups of immigrants and natives at the top and the bottom of the …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that the effects of industry regulation on worker earnings are … legislation opposed by the industry did not affect earnings growth relative to industries not subject to regulatory legislation …. Legislation supported by the industry led to slower relative earnings growth. Union wage differentials increased in industries …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of the predicted earnings differential between self … the wage-employed sector. The separate earnings functions for the self-employed and the wage-employed are estimated in … order to predict an individual's earnings in each sector. In order to overcome selectivity problems a Heckman approach is …

Living Conditions is used to evaluate the roles of foreign origin and citizenship on employment and earnings using the …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze gender disparities in labor earnings for a comprehensive set of 64 … are used to match males and females such that gender earnings disparities are computed only among individuals with the … earnings gap falls within a range between 8 per cent and 48 per cent of average females’ earnings, being more pronounced in …

This paper examines the incidence of measurement error in wage data on the estimation of returns to seniority. Earnings … surveys collect wage data through questions pertaining to earnings and hours over a given period of time (year, week) or …, the inclusion of earnings from secondary jobs and overtime in the PSID annual earnings data tends to overestimate returns …