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The timing of careers and human capital depreciation
Kunze, Astrid - 2002
This paper explores the short and long run effects of career interruptions on wages for young skilled workers in West …
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Earnings Over the Life Cycle : The Mincer Earnings Function and its Applications
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2021
In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316685
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Micro foundations of earnings differences
Das, Tirthatanmoy; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2017
knowledge are most influential in explaining earnings variations. Marketable skills actually acquired in school depend on these …
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The timing of careers and human capital depreciation
Kunze, Astrid - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001685748
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The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the Relative Return to Skill
Simmons, Robert; Lucifora, Claudio - 2001
of spectators who are attracted. In this context, the relationship between individual productivity and pay can lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014132201
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Do students expect compensation for wage risk?
Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2009
estimated on market data: higher wage risk for educational groups is associated with higher mean wages. With observations on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003825129
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A structural analysis of the correlated random coefficient wage regression model
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002
and assumes that the population is composed of 8 unknown types. Overall, labor market skills (as opposed to taste for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411668
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A structural analysis of the correlated random coefficient wage regression model with an application to the ols-iv puzzle
Belzil, Christian (contributor); Hansen, Jörgen (contributor) - 2005
We estimate a finite mixture dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the log wage regression function is set within a correlated random coefficient model and we use the structural estimates to perform counterfactual experiments. We show that the estimates of the dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002772737
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Sources of wage growth
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian - 2022
-worker productivity matches. Estimating this model using longitudinal administrative data over three decades, we show that RM skills are a …-abstract (CA) and routine-manual (RM) skills, and job mobility is induced by non-pecuniary job attributes and persistent firm … key driver of early wage growth while CA skills become important later on. Moreover, job amenities are an important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170247
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Country of Origin and Immigrant Earnings, 1960-2000 : A Human Capital Investment Perspective
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2014
Using microdata from the 1960-2000 decennial censuses, this paper explores how large initial differences in immigrant earnings by country of origin change with duration in the United States. One analysis reveals that country of origin adds less to the explanation of earnings, among working-age...
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