different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of … the focus on early-career earnings leads to underestimating the lifetime returns to skills by about one quarter. On … States. Estimates are remarkably robust to different earnings and skill measures, additional controls, and various subgroups …

The current study examines earnings differences for practicing lawyers by undergraduate major with a focus on economics … majors. Some majors do much better than others. Economics majors tend to do very well in both median and mean earnings, and …

experience that is associated with each percentile of the education-level specific wage distribution. In the second step, we map …

The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in … Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European … marginal return to the marginal cost of education – we speculate that either marginal costs are steeper in Italy or that a …

, empirical analyses concentrated directly on education-related differences in earnings. The human capital revolution of the late …This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in … the U.S. Early analyses of skill-related differences compared the earnings of workers across occupations. The general …

distribution of personal labor earnings. The aim is to review what is known about the contribution of differences in relative wages …

earnings. Controlling for age 7 cognitive skills and family background, we show that late pubertal development is associated … reflected in lower levels of educational attainment and earnings for late developed individuals. The number of late developing …

A generalized rise in unemployment rates for both college and high-school graduates, a widening education wage premium …, and a sharp increase in college education participation are characteristic features of the transformations of the U … education is endogenously determined. Second, calibrated versions of the model are used to study quantitatively whether either a …