Understanding the factors that affect how one transitions from school to the labor market and finally to retirement isimportant both to the individual and to the policy maker. This volume containsseven original and innovative articles that analyze aspects of such labormarket transitions....

This volume investigates the relationship between a nation's health policies, employee health, and the resulting labor market outcomes. Containing nine original and innovative articles, it is a fundamental text for anyone interested in labor economics.

In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array...