We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms …

Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women's employment rates but decrease their wages in case of …

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

employment experience in the receiving country. However, such a simple model is not necessarily cross-culturally applicable and … achieved human capital do not significantly influence immigrant wages in Hamamatsu. Instead, ascribed human capital (e ….g., gender, ethnicity) has a much greater impact on immigrant wages in Japan than in the United States. Although the use of …

compared with 3 for a Gaussian distribution. The high kurtosis implies that, in a given year, most individuals experience very … small earnings shocks, and a small but non-negligible number experience very large shocks. Second, these statistical …