generates a higher income, but only for entrepreneurs: This finding supports Lazear's Jack-of-all-Trades theory. …

disentangle how the patterns vary according to individual skills, defined in terms of both educational levels and percentiles of …

This paper analyzes the effect on earnings of the matching of English language skills to occupational requirements. It … expected levels of English skills in each of over 500 occupations in the US Census. Earnings data from the 2000 US Census for … that earnings are related to correct matching of an individual's language skills and that of his occupation. Moreover, the …

We investigate the cyclicality of real wages and income using individual data for the UK over the 1991-2008 period. By … paying special attention to the heterogeneity among different earnings and income groups, we document that individuals at the … recessions than in expansions for top-incomes. We also show that real wages and income are roughly a cyclical for low wage and …

/white pay differentials. The theoretical analysis derives that the more intensively "soft"/"hard" skills are used in an … differential pay gaps across jobs requiring different levels of "soft"/"hard" skills, blacks are more likely to self …-select themselves into the jobs that use "hard" skills more intensively, ceteris paribus. Using NLSY data, we find consistent empirical …

between workers in low-skill and high-skilled occupations, and in which non-verifiable soft skills are an important …

/white pay differentials. The theoretical analysis derives that the more intensively soft/hard skills are used in an occupation … differential pay gaps across jobs requiring different levels of soft/hard skills, blacks are more likely to self-select themselves … into the jobs that use hard skills more intensively, ceteris paribus. Using NLSY data, we find consistent empirical …

analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. Underweight women earn more and overweight less than others. For normal-weight men the income is on average higher than for over … estimates. However, no clear-cut disadvantage in income of underweight men can be found. Stable coefficients result for the …