This economic study focuses on the determinants of self-employment / wage-work choice using a large sample of Colombian men. The econometric model is based on simultaneous determination of the choice of employment status and potential earnings, it accounts for self-selectivity. Our major...

We use a model of the diffusion of knowledge which considers one of the principal forms of training found within firms : learning by watching. Using a French INSEE matched employee-employer survey (Le coût de la main d'oeuvre et la structure des salaires 1992, ECMOSS 92), we propose an...

A simple model of informal learning on-the-job, which combines learning by oneself and learning from others, is proposed in this paper. It yields a closed-form solution that revises Mincer-Jovanovic's (1981) treatment of tenure in the human capital earnings function by relating earnings to the...