This paper shows that returns to education are not enough to capture all the returns to human capital. Using …

We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between … employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control …. We use the German Socio-economic Panel and account for the endogeneity of education and non-random selection. The results …

We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between … employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control …. We use the German Socio-economic Panel and account for the endogeneity of education and non-random selection. The results …

omitted ability and family background variables interact in the estimation of returns. On the methodological front, we propose … a semi-parametric estimation approach based on balancing scores and mixture models, in particular allowing for …

rates of return to education, which are allowed to vary substantially across countries and to some extent over time. The new …

Why do people work unpaid overtime? We show that remarkable long-term labor earnings gains are associated with unpaid … average at least a 10 percentage points higher increase in real labor earnings than their co-workers. Applying panel data … beyond the standard work week to enhance real earnings prospects. …

impact. The intermittency penalty also increases in the education level of the woman. The penalty for a woman with a high …

linked to Detailed Earnings Records from the Social Security Administration (SSA). This paper extends earlier work by Dale … and Krueger (2002) that examined the relationship between the college that students attended in 1976 and the earnings they … self-reported reported in 1995 on the C&B follow-up survey. In this analysis, we use administrative earnings data to …

which can only be approximated using just the IAB employment sample. Our IV fixed effects estimation results suggest that …

the literature on earnings effects of training. First, the earnings effect of training is calculated for different "types … distinguish between the earnings impact of external and internal training. For our analysis, we use the "Qualification and Career … one-step full-information maximum likelihood and a two stage least squares estimation to regress the impact of training …