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Do employers pay for consistent performance? : Evidence from the NBA
Bodvarsson, Örn B. - In: Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic … 36 (1998) 1, pp. 145-160
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Earnings Over the Life Cycle : The Mincer Earnings Function and its Applications
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2021
In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array...
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Micro foundations of earnings differences
Das, Tirthatanmoy; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2017
This paper examines how human capital based approaches explain the distribution of earnings. It assesses traditional, quasi-experimental, and new micro-based structural models, the latter of which gets at population heterogeneity by estimating individual-specific earnings function parameters....
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The timing of careers and human capital depreciation
Kunze, Astrid - 2002
This paper explores the short and long run effects of career interruptions on wages for young skilled workers in West …
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Overeducation and Ethnic Minorities in Britain
Battu, Harminder; Sloane, Peter J. - 2021
This study examines the utilisation of education across ethnic minorities in the UK. In particular, we examine the incidence of mismatch between educational qualifications and occupational attainment, the determinants of any mismatch and the consequences for earnings and other labour market...
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Overeducation and ethnic minorities in Britain
Battu, Harminder; Sloane, Peter J. - 2002
This study examines the utilisation of education across ethnic minorities in the UK. In particular, we examine the incidence of mismatch between educational qualifications and occupational attainment, the determinants of any mismatch and the consequences for earnings and other labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415198
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The timing of careers and human capital depreciation
Kunze, Astrid - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001685748
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Overeducation and ethnic minorities in Britain
Battu, Harminder - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013268920
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Hedonic wage equilibrium : theory, evidence and policy
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Leeth, John D. - 2010
heterogeneity leading to a set of wages. We focus on the application where hedonic models have been most successful at clarifying … policy relevant outcomes and policy effects, that of the wage premia for fatal injury risk. Estimates of the overall hedonic … dimensions of heterogeneity in VSL, including by age and consumption plans, the latent trait that affects wages and job safety …
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Endogenous schooling and the distribution of the gender wage gap
Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger - 1999
Previous studies on gender wage discrimination have relied on OLS when estimating the wage equations. However, there exists a number of recent studies, devoted to estimating the return to education, that have shown that OLS may produce biased estimates for a number of reasons. Consequently, if...
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