, and between 1978 and 1996, in ways correlated with changing wage inequality. Satisfaction among workers in upper earnings … response to a sharp increase in the relative earnings of high-wage men in the mid-1990s. Several hypotheses about the …

the impacts on earnings into effects on wage rates and effects on hours. For most degrees, the earnings gains come from … increased wage rates, though hours play an important role in some degrees, such as medicine, especially for women. Third, we …

's wage rates during the 1980s and 1990s. Previous studies have found evidence of sizeable and persistent rates of return to … working while enrolled in school, especially high school, on subsequent wage growth. Such findings may represent causal …

wage premium associated with graduation from high school vanishes during severe slumps, periods in which employers are …

We investigate the relationship between current schooling and current wage rates. Casual observation seems to reflect a … discontinuity in wage rate growth which occurs when an individual completes school and joins the labor force as a permanent member … things constant, are about 12% lower than those of non-students. The magnitude of this wage differential is surprisingly …