This paper examines how human capital based approaches explain the distribution of earnings. It assesses traditional … estimating individual-specific earnings function parameters. The paper finds one's ability to learn and one's ability to retain … knowledge are most influential in explaining earnings variations. Marketable skills actually acquired in school depend on these …

We document changes in the structure of earnings during the economic transition in Poland. We find that inequality in … labor earnings increased substantially from 1988 to 1996. A common view is that the reallocation of workers from a public … increased earnings inequality during transition. However, our decomposition of the sources of the increase in inequality …

This paper documents that inequality in labor earnings increased substantially during the economic transition in Poland …. One surprising result is that earnings inequality increased markedly in both the private and public sectors, indicating …