This paper uses the New Zealand Linked Income Supplement (LIS) to investigate the annual transitions in hourly earnings …

impact of transitions out of and back into formal employment on wages earned in the formal sector and the effect of early …

terms of negative skewness and high kurtosis, with these deviations varying with income and along the worker's life cycle. A … employment, we also study the impact of transitions out of and back into formal employment on wages earned in the formal sector …

1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital …This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in …. Following the 1940 Decennial Census, which collected information on educational attainment and on earned income and time worked …