This study addresses an open debate in the literature about the direct effects of measures of school quality on workers' earnings in the labor market. Card and Kureges (1996) argue that the young sample that Betts (1995) uses understates the effects of the measures of school quality on earnings....

Using the Colombian Annual Manufacturing Survey (AMS) between 2000 and 2014, this paper investigates the effect of labor contract modalities on firm productivity within the industrial sector through a structural model. We find that the elasticity of revenue with respect to temporary workers is...

A large literature documents the uneven distribution of labor market outcomes across majors. Students in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) can earn more than their peers. This earnings gap can be attributed not only to the differential educational resources investment but...