Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education …Formal education is widely thought to be a major determinant of individual earnings. This paper uses the American … censuses. The instrumental variables results suggest that schooling has a significant positive effect on worker wages …

"Guest workers" earn higher wages overseas on temporary low-skill employment visas. This wage effect can quantify …

1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital … estimating the returns to education and experience. Recent analyses of education and wages have built on this foundation and have …This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in …

experience that is associated with each percentile of the education-level specific wage distribution. In the second step, we map …In this paper we develop a novel method to project location-specific life-cycle wages for all occupations listed in the … this estimated average years of experience to the wage-level percentiles reported in the Occupational Employment and Wage …