The idea that wages rise relative to alternatives as job seniority accumulates is the foundation of the theory of … individuals to the combination of wages, job tenure, and experience that are observed in survey data. Allowing for sources of bias … generated by these decisions, this paper uses longitudinal data to estimate a lower bound on the avenge return to job seniority …

sorting conditional on major choice. We highlight that women both choose majors with lower potential earnings (based on male … wages associated with those majors) and that they then subsequently sort into occupations with lower potential earnings … choose majors and occupations with lower potential earnings. Differences in undergraduate major choice explains a substantive …

-Fraumeni human capital measurement framework and modify it to estimate provincial level human capital in China. We produce a …

correlation between density and earnings is stronger in both China and India than in the U.S., strongest in China. In India the … American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications …

How worker productivity evolves with tenure and experience is central to economics, shaping, for example, life …-cycle earnings and the losses from involuntary job separation. Yet, worker-level productivity is hard to identify from observational …-the-job tenure from total experience in determining productivity growth. Several findings emerge concerning the initial period on the …