effects in wage equations fo studying the effect of education. It also provides a human capital interpretation of these firm … matched structure of the data. Wage regressions including the computed factors confirm tha human capital is associated with …, the poor benefit from working in the textile sector in terms of wages unlike the middle and high wage workers. …

wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive skills and personality traits. Our results show that while cognitive … regressions indicate that personality traits do matter in certain parts of the conditional wage distribution, especially for wages … of females. Cognitive skills as measured by reading and numeracy also confer different benefits across the wage …

Using first-hand data from the 2009 Employment and Informal Sector Survey (EESIC) in the two largest cities of the …

outcome) affect wages only by enabling workers to use formal hiring channels, they have no additional wage return. Non …-cognitive skills, on the other hand, do not affect hiring channels, but they do enjoy a positive wage return. This wage return differs … skill that could arguably be observed during selection interviews, are associated with a larger within-firm wage gap between …

issues at three different levels: the worker, the employment status (wage employment vs. self-employment) and the earnings … workers' employment status and on their relative position in the earnings distribution. In the case of a poor and fragile …

transitions from unemployment to employment, from wage employment to self-employment, and from self-employment to wage employment …