demonstrate with state of the art statistical models how wages are affected by labour market experience, employment interruptions … the wage profile afterwards. Labour market experience, as one major determinant of human capital, influences wages heavily …

identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative … family gap. -- wages ; parental leave ; human capital ; return to work ; non-random selection …

suggested by Andini (2012; 2013). -- schooling ; wages ; dynamic panel-data models …

first six waves of the British Household Panel Survey. We show that much of the residual variation in wages can be explained … by significant unobserved differences between workers, perhaps reflecting innate ability or other characteristics of … of our findings is that wages are determined principally by individual characteristics - as human capital theory …

controlled for there is a further pervasive source of bias, namely the co-movement of firm employment and firm wages. In a simple … aggregate or firm level) to firm's employment and wages cause downward bias in OLS regression estimates of RTT. We show that the … between 3.5% and 4.5% of wages at 20 years of tenure - over 80% (50%) of the estimated RTT level itself. The results extend to …

union wage premium of about 9 percent, but with, in a more novel finding, substantial heterogeneity across workers. The 0 … empirical analysis further suggests that, on net, unions have an equalizing effect on the distribution of wages. …

identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative … family gap. -- wages ; parental leave ; human capital ; return to work ; non-random selection …

compensating differentials with lagged wages, and for profitability (rent sharing). Employment expansion also has a positive effect … monopsony or upward sloping labour supply curves for average firm wages. Panel estimates provide strong evidence of a much … on wages, providing further evidence for upward sloping labour supply (as distinct from the effect of shocks in a …