This work provides a test of competitive theories of wage determination by examining the wages of identical workers across industry classifications. The finding that a set of significant industry wage differentials exists would seem to contradict a purely competitive theory of wage...

This paper investigates the 'goodness-of-fit' and effect on estimates of the experience-earnings profile of alternative specifications of the human capital earnings function for a sample of full-time male workers in Australia. It is concluded that it is difficult to differentiate between...