substantial progress in education. However, average workers¿ earnings have stagnated and earnings for workers with more schooling … have declined, compressing the earnings distribution and lowering the returns to education. This paper hypothesizes that … for educated workers. The paper decomposes worker earnings into observable and unobservable firm and individual worker …

non-economic, phenomena. One such application involves explaining (and estimating) employment earnings as a function of …

degrees with the highest average earnings and underestimates the returns to degrees with the lowest average earnings. Second …, we decompose the impacts on earnings into effects on wage rates and effects on hours. For most degrees, the earnings …

This paper explores the role of school quality in immigrants' home countries on their earnings in Germany, using native …

earnings, a key indicator of economic integration. …

workers' wages and to explore the factors that contribute to the existence of such mismatch among workers with higher …