to replicate the empirical life-cycle patterns with respect to the age-earnings profile of individuals. Finally, we …

skills enhance relative short-term earnings and (2) that general skills enhance relative long-term earnings. Empirical … secondary school programs, this study provides a first exploration of individuals' earnings across nearly complete careers. The … descriptive earnings patterns indicate support for both hypotheses (1) and (2). The support holds when controlling for GPA and …

participating in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competences (PIAAC) and from 13 countries that also … reading or ICT tasks- obtain 10% of one standard deviation higher scores in the domain of the PIAAC assessment most related to … synthetic cohort analysis using repeated literacy assessments in IALS and PIAAC indicates that, among the low-educated, long …

The current study examines earnings differences for practicing lawyers by undergraduate major with a focus on economics … majors. Some majors do much better than others. Economics majors tend to do very well in both median and mean earnings, and …

obtaining skill certificates increases freelancers' earnings. This effect is not driven by increased freelancer productivity but … by decreased employer uncertainty. The increase in freelancer earnings is mostly realised through an increase in the …