We develop and estimate an equilibrium job search model of worker careers, allowing for human capital accumulation … and job search, within and between jobs. Human capital accumulation is largest for highly educated workers, and both human … capital accumulation and job search contribute to the observed concavity of wage-experience profiles. The contribution from …

participation on earnings correcting for the endogeneity of training participation. By using a broad list of employee and employer …

sibling correlations in skills, schooling, and earnings across fine-grained groups defined by parental socioeconomic status … (SES). We find that sibling correlations generally decline in parental SES. This pattern holds for skills, schooling, and …

or the teacher work environment on teacher attrition. In this paper, we use non-teaching wages of former teachers to …

This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult …‐qualified employees. Little evidence is found in favour of equilibrium theories of skills matching and compensating wage differentials …

experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we construct a job match index based on the usefulness … of the school-provided skills and the relevance of the job performed to the field of study. Then we regress the first …-2005. We find that only the HEI graduates obtain a wage premium from skills acquired in the course of formal education. This …