In this paper we use indirect inference to estimate a joint model of earnings, employment, job changes, wage rates, and … heterogeneity, job-specific error components in both wages and hours, and measurement error. We use the model to address a number of … important questions in labor economics, including the source of the experience profile of wages, the response of job changes to …

The extent to which wages rise with the accumulation of seniority(tenure) in a firm after one controls for total labor …, positive partial effect of tenure on wages. This paper re-examines the evidence using a simple instrumental variables scheme to … term of the wage equation. Our main findingis that the partial effect of tenure on wages is small, and that general labor …

status.Our empirical analysis suggests the following conclusions.1)Wages for work while not retired and for work while … to distinguish between wages paid to the partially retired and to the not retired causes a sizable exaggeration of the …

, father's education, and wages for young men and their siblings from NLSY. We also examine the empirical implications of …

We measure the effects of parental education on the education profile of wages. The analysis uses sibling pairs from … Women. We also use the variance across siblings in school characteristics to estimate the effects of school inputs on wages … substantial positive effect on the wages of high school graduates …

In this paper we develop and estimate a factor model of the earnings, labor supply, and wages of young men and young … primarily due to preferences rather than to labor supply responses to family similarities in wages. The wage factors of the … father and mother influence the wages of both sons and daughters. A `sibling' wage factor also plays an important role in …

effects on wages and educational attainment of specific courses of study. The main finding is that the return to additional …