degrees with the highest average earnings and underestimates the returns to degrees with the lowest average earnings. Second …, we decompose the impacts on earnings into effects on wage rates and effects on hours. For most degrees, the earnings …

This paper analyzes the historical evidence of the gender gap in employment and wages in Mexico. We construct … formal market and wages for each gender and quarter, correcting selection biases. Based on these results, we implement a … Blinder-Oaxaca (1973) and Mulligan-Rubinstein (2008) decomposition to estimate the gender gap in wages. Our results suggest …

controlled for the observed characteristics and sample selection, for men, covered sector wages are at least twice as higher than … uncovered sector wages at all levels of experience and education. This is true with some caveat for women also. This large … differential in wages can be taken as an indication of labor market segmentation between the covered and uncovered wage earners …

career success as denoted by occupational status, linked to earnings. This is the first application of this analysis to New … native-born populations and provide evidence on the mediating effect of occupational attainment on earnings. Our analyses …, and much of its effect on earnings is through occupational attainment; different immigrant groups have differentiable …

reduction in earnings is likely due to the reduction in education. …

workers' wages and to explore the factors that contribute to the existence of such mismatch among workers with higher …

reduction in earnings is likely due to the reduction in education. It should be noted, however, that due to the characteristics …