of English skills on labour market status and, conditional on being a wage earner, on monthly earnings and occupational … level of skills in English and earnings, which is only modestly reduced when job-related variables and (especially …) occupation dummies are included as additional controls. Indeed, being proficient in English barely affects occupational status …

education, earnings equations were estimated using the Heckman selection model. The education of youths and their parents had a … great impact on youths' earnings, mainly on females. Young women with higher education more than double their earnings …

native born and foreign born, as reported in the 2000 Census, one percent sample. Working in an occupation that requires … job, has a large effect on earnings among the native born, and an even larger effect among the foreign born. This effect …, are held constant. Earnings increase with the respondent’s own proficiency in English, with the English proficiency …

unemployment in rural areas. It documents changes and differences in metro and nonmetro employment growth, unemployment, earnings …

This paper examines the determinants of occupational attainment and the impact of occupation on earnings. Results for … earnings gains associated with years of schooling derives from inter-occupational mobility. When occupation is held constant … both the native born and foreign born are presented, and these provide insights as to the earnings penalties associated …

1969-1980 and 1981-1992 periods in the U.S. We find that workers changed both occupation and industry more frequently in … the later period. Workers, on average, shifted occupation 1.8 times in the earlier period and 2.1 times in the later, and … lower earnings, though this effect has lessened over time (from a 13 percent earnings reduction per occupational change for …

This paper examines the determinants of occupational attainment and the impact of occupation on earnings. Results for … earnings gains associated with years of schooling derives from interoccupational mobility. When occupation is held constant … both the native born and foreign born are presented, and these provide insights as to the earnings penalties associated …

native born and foreign born, as reported in the 2000 Census, one percent sample. Working in an occupation that requires … job, has a large effect on earnings among the native born, and an even larger effect among the foreign born. This effect …, are held constant. Earnings increase with the respondent’s own proficiency in English, with the English proficiency …

augments a conventional human capital earnings function with information on occupations. It also estimates models of … occupational attainment. The results from both the earnings function and model of occupational attainment indicate that the limited …