the Bachelor‘s degree is broadly accepted among future employers, the majority of students do not trust the career … opportunities with a Bachelor‘s degree only and prefer to undertake a Master‘s degree. In fact, the starting salaries for Bachelor …

incentives to invest in education? This paper exploits Norwegian population panel data with nearly career long earnings histories … earnings and steeper age-earnings profile, in line with predictions from human capital theory. These estimates imply an …

. Rather we observe that employers use career ladders to protect one-sided investments against opportunistic bargaining. In …-the-job training itself on subsequent job mobility, career ladders and wage growth. …

subcategories defined by age and point in time. We use data from the German Socioeconomic Panel from 1984 to 2011 to show the …

increase with age. Third, the effect on total incomes reflects a combination of positive impacts of cognitive performance for … examine how cognitive performance, measured at approximately the end of secondary schooling, is related to the labor market … analysis reveals five main findings. First, cognitive performance is positively associated with future labor market outcomes at …

We demonstrate that empirical evidence of employer learning is sensitive to how one defines the career start date and … - systematically overstates experience and biases learning estimates towards zero for college-educated workers. Using career start …