Authors often add covariates to a base model sequentially either to test a particular coefficient's “robustness” or to account for the “effects” on this coefficient of adding covariates. This is problematic, due to sequence-sensitivity when added covariates are intercorrelated. Using the...

This paper investigates low wage retention using a survival analysis approach. Variables explaining low wage retention take into account the characteristics of the employee, such as education, age, tenure with the company, gender and nationality, and the characteristics of the job and the...

I have worried about the talk, in recent times, that immigrants hurt the wages of native workers in the host nation. If so, that is not a good outcome. Why should native workers lose out to immigrants? To come to terms with my worry, I began to experiment with a classic dataset on immigrants and...

Using Human Capital and Signaling theories, this paper seeks to explain recent graduates' labor income in Colombia. Since usual household surveys do not provide specific information to analyze wage determinants (such as field of study, characteristics of the institution where the degree was...

This paper develops methods for assessing the sensitivity of empirical conclusions regarding conditional distributions to departures from the missing at random (MAR) assumption. We index the degree of nonignorable selection governing the missing data process by the maximal Kolmogorov–Smirnov...

What effect does change of the marital status of the individual to his wages in Russia? We used matching estimators (simple matching estimator and propensity score matching) on RLMS data for 2000–2009. On the basis of estimates we analyzed different transitions of changing marital status...

Teniendo como referentes la teoría del capital humano y la dese~nalización, el documento analiza la influencia de variables socioeconómicas,laborales y de las características de las Instituciones de Educación Superior(IES), sobre el ingreso laboral de los graduados universitarios en...

In the paper relationship of men’s income and their marital status is tested empirically. The Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey of HSE (RLMS HSE) data (1994–2011) confirm that men who are officially or civil married and were married before earn more in average than men who are not and...

The Portuguese economy has benefited from large amounts of European structural funds since the mid-eighties. At the same time, interest rates have decreased substantially, mainly due to a credibility phenomenon. The effects of those funds and the reduction of financial costs can be considered as...

RESUMEN: Se presenta un ejercicio para la valuación de Contratos de Capital Humano (CCH), siguiendo a Palacios (2004), en el cual se utilizan datos del Observatorio Laboral para la Educación y su Encuesta de Seguimiento a Graduados–2007. El análisis se hace a través de un modelo Minceriano...