differentials in the lower-wage origin relative to the higher-wage destination. Favorable selectivity for labor market success can …This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although … favorable selectivity is more intense the greater the out-of-pocket (direct) costs of migration and return migration, the …

, employer heterogeneity and individual-level shocks. Career wage growth is decomposed into the contributions of human capital … capital accumulation and job search contribute to the observed concavity of wage-experience profiles. The contribution from … job search to wage growth, both within- and between-job, declines over the first ten years of a career - the 'job …

contribution to wage growth, while the evidence on industry specificity is not very supportive. The second contribution of the …

employer matching to understand wage growth and career mobility using the NLSY79. It departs from previous papers in that …-specific experience. However, college graduates' wage grows little through career-match upgrading, which results in a lower incidence of …

. We present a model of wage determination where firms produce using a novel generalization of Kremer (1993)'s O … from US job posting data. High hold-up occupations exhibit both higher wage levels and higher long-run passthrough of …-up power across occupations has numerous implications for wage inequality: (1) greater employment of men in high hold …

Subject of this paper is the investigation of wage developments of women interrupting their careers for giving birth … duration of interruption as well as in short-, intermediate and long-run perspective. We find less wage penalty for women …

This paper analyzes the wage development of mothers interrupting their careers, in comparison to the wages of men who … penalty for maternity differ according to the duration of interruption. We find a lower wage penalty in the short run for …

This paper documents the existence and main patterns of inter-industry wage differentials across a large number of …-industry wage differentials conditional on a rich set of employee, employer and job characteristics. After investigating the … possibility that unobservable employee characteristics lie behind the conditional wage differentials, a hypothesis which cannot be …

This paper documents the existence and main patterns of inter-industry wage differentials across a large number of …-industry wage differentials conditional on a rich set of employee, employer and job characteristics. After investigating the … possibility that unobservable employee characteristics lie behind the conditional wage differentials, a hypothesis which cannot be …

This paper documents the existence and main patterns of inter-industry wage differentials across a large number of …-industry wage differentials conditional on a rich set of employee, employer and job characteristics. After investigating the … possibility that unobservable employee characteristics lie behind the conditional wage differentials, a hypothesis which cannot be …