earnings determination that separate income shocks into idiosyncratic transitory and permanent components. We allow for … education-specific differences in the stochastic process for earnings and for measurement error. The conditional variance of the …

earnings is linear in schooling, but is an arbitrary function of basic skills, we find that this relationship is not well …

subsequent earnings and if a potential reduction lasts over the individual's labor market history. We construct a pseudo panel of … 1979, 1985/86, and 1991/92. Analyzing the pseudo panel data we find a strong negative impact on earnings for both a failed …

The UK has experienced a dramatic increase in earnings and income inequality over the past four decades. We use … monetary policy shocks lead to a deterioration in earnings and income inequality and contribute to its fluctuation. Our …

Using a large longitudinal data set, we study the effects of increased trade on earnings and mobility in the Swedish … labor market in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Earnings respond significantly to changes in industry sales, whether … generated by domestic market forces or international trade: Swedish exports (imports) raise (lower) annual earnings, but changes …

The paper examines the role of education in earnings determination by using all three rounds of the Urban Worker … Surveys of Tanzania and Ghana for 2004-2006. We investigate and compare heterogeneity in earnings determinants among self … facilitating entry into employment sectors in addition to analysing the pattern of returns to education along the earnings …

This paper brings new evidence to the existing literature on earnings differentials and returns to human capital for …

This paper estimates the association of demographic and educational changes with earnings and returns to schooling of … educational transitions are correlated with earnings and returns to education. Proportions of people in age-education groups tend … to have negative associations with aggregated earnings. Workers with secondary education completed experience negative …