impact of market forces favoring human capital accumulation on the formation of earnings. Today, a large and growing fraction … for earnings mobility and growth; for the majority, however, selfemployment remains constrained to low …-productivity agricultural or trading activities, with little earnings stability and little potential for long term earnings growth. Prospects …

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent …

This paper investigates whether returns to schooling differ according to the choice of the measure of earnings and the … the Heckman method, we show that converting earnings to common measures and pooling respondents produces different …

This paper studies the causal effects of graduating from university with an honors degree on subsequent earnings. While … find that students of law who passed the state bar exam with an honors degree receive a significant earnings premium of …

This paper studies the causal effects of graduating from university with an honors degree on subsequent earnings. While … find that students of law who passed the state bar exam with an honors degree receive a significant earnings premium of …

substantial progress in education. However, average workers¿ earnings have stagnated and earnings for workers with more schooling … have declined, compressing the earnings distribution and lowering the returns to education. This paper hypothesizes that … for educated workers. The paper decomposes worker earnings into observable and unobservable firm and individual worker …