We analyze the effect of a wife’s human capital on her husband’s earnings, using individual-level data for Japan in the … period 2000–2003. We find a positive association between a wife’s education and her husband’s earnings, which can be … increase their husbands’ productivity and earnings only when they are non-workers and have sufficient time to support their …

firms have more incentives to manipulate earnings. I provide evidence that the persistence of both the growth and accounting … positive earnings, and negative accounting distortions for relatively low-growth firms that are far from the potential to … report positive earnings. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 …

accounting line items, earnings and book values. We argue that from the perspective of both the residual income and option …-style valuation models, the relative valuation roles of earnings and book values differ fundamentally between firms that trade at a … valuation than earnings when firms trade at a discount. We also find that other known influential conditions, such as the sign …

, it is shown that after controlling for earnings, book-to-market ratio and firm size, the fundamental strategy proposed … furthering understanding of the “post-earnings” drift phenomenon in the BMV. …

and domestic firms) and remaining differences in wage levels and growth rates. We find that much of the average earnings … similar workers and firms, we find a two to four percent earnings gap between workers in domestic and foreign-owned firms …-firm employment, as workers who return to domestically-owned firms do not appear to retain the additional earnings associated with …

women in the nursing profession, their income and earnings volatility, and inequities in their employment, Richard McGregory … and earnings. While these pieces show that African American women have made significant inroads into the American labor …

In this paper we propose an integrated framework for the analysis of earnings inequality and mobility, which enables … Australian HILDA survey we find evidence of a sizable degree of earnings mobility in Australia over the years 2001/2 to 2008 … identified mobility is simply driven by age-earnings growth that sees more rapid wage increases for younger workers and wage …

) earnings. Using a representative panel of 6016 French self-employed GPs over the years 1983-2004, we estimate an earnings … function to identify experience, time and cohort effects. The estimated gap in earnings between good and bad cohorts can be as … large as 25%. GPs who began their practices during the eighties have the lowest permanent earnings: they belong to the large …