A well-established empirical literature suggests that individual wages are persistent. Several theoretical arguments … commonly used static-model estimators of schooling coefficients are subject to an omitted-variable bias which can be named … "persistence bias". …

the determinants of the least squares bias of the wage return to education. We find that disregarding individual fixed … effects is highly problematic, accounting for 95% of the bias. In contrast, disregarding firm fixed effects has marginal …

This paper investigates how to test for nonresponse selection bias in wage functions induced by missing income …

expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and …We measure individual bias in labor market expectations in German survey data and find that workers on average … pessimistic than West Germans. We find a significantly negative relationship between the pessimistic bias in job separation …

expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and …We measure individual bias in labor market expectations in German survey data and find that workers on average … pessimistic than West Germans. We find a significantly negative relationship between the pessimistic bias in job separation …

the long-term economic benefits of India's national program of childhood vaccinations, known as the Universal Immunization … Programme (UIP). We combine individual-level data from the 68th round of the National Sample Survey of India (2011–2012) with …-à-vis non-UIP districts in 1985-1990. We find that exposure to UIP in infancy increases weekly wages by 13.8% (95% CI: 7.6% to …

setting minimum wages at the contract level. Using an instrumental variable strategy and exploiting variations in contract …-level exposure to trade, we find for the 1995-2003 period that, on average, the surge in imports decreased contractual minimum wages … effect contrasts with a nonsignificant effect of trade on total wages, with the latter becoming positive and large only for …