affects labor markets in sending countries, particularly the wages of workers who do not emigrate. Most studies find that … emigration increases wages in the sending country but only for non-emigrants with substitutable skills similar to those of … country loses many highly educated workers, the economy can become less productive altogether, leading to lower wages for …

1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital … estimating the returns to education and experience. Recent analyses of education and wages have built on this foundation and have …

of wages on the workers' human capital intertemporal investment decisions and the existence of a virtuous dynamic cycle … between wages and human capital. Among the desired characteristics of the proposed model is that it has an analytical solution … model predicts two benchmark human capital gross returns and their corresponding wages, by levels of education. Below the …

cross-sectional data, suggest that market access has a positive and statistically significant effect on wages, although this …

turn reducing the cross-sectional dispersion of (before-tax) wages. We find that these policies can account for half of the …