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criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …
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We analyze the impact on a firm's profits and optimal wage rates, and on the distribution of workers' earnings, when … workers compare their earnings with those of co-workers. We consider a low-productivity worker who receives lower wage … earnings than a high-productivity worker. When the low-productivity worker derives (dis)utility not only from his own effort …
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criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …
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The paper estimates the returns to education for a cohort of individuals born in Britain in March 1958 who have been followed since birth until the age of 33. The data used has a wealth of information on family background including parental education, social class and interest shown in the...
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This paper reviews Jacob Mincer?s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through … theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the pre-Mincer period, and then discusses his analysis of human capital … and earnings developed in his 1957 doctoral dissertation and 1958 Journal of Political Economy (JPE) article. Further …
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In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand earnings distribution. In the years since Mincer … enhances earnings; why earnings rise at a diminishing rate throughout one?s life; why earnings growth is smaller for those …, the paper shows that Mincer?s original finding of a U-shaped (log) variance of earnings over the life cycle is upheld in …
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international literature on the measured incidence of educational mismatch and its earnings effects. We use a rich Australian … rate of over-education is 32.3%. The earnings penalty for each year of over-education is 2.5%, which is larger than 0.6% in …
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This paper employs survey data on the reasons to quit of Dutch job changers who entered or left a public sector job in 2001. We show that workers' reasons to quit their public sector job influence their decision to stay in or leave their industry of employment. A bad experience with, for...
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This paper examines the consequences of creating a fully competitive market in a sector previously dominated by a cost-minimizing public firm. Workers in the economy are heterogeneous in their intrinsic motivation to work in the sector. In line with empirical findings, our model implies that...
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