Human capital

We investigate the effects of the drastic tariff reductions of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia on the wage distribution.

The wage gap between male and female workers has narrowed in both the US and the UK over the past twenty five years.

This article identifies the part‐time wage effect, using hours variation caused by the social security rules.

We compare the importance of occupational gender segregation for the gender wage gap in East and West Germany in 1995 using a sample of social-security wage records for full-time workers.

Considering immigrant earnings in the context of post-arrival human capital investment implies: cohort quality should be defined in terms of the present value of the whole earnings profile; and, an appropriate definition of macro effects is obtained using the earnings profile of the native

This paper summarises the economic literature on modelling take-up, with a focus on income-related or work-related benefits or tax credits.

This paper attempts to uncover the effects of a welfare-to-work programme, that acts as a wage subsidy, on wage growth by exploiting an expansion to this welfare programme in the UK.

This paper shows that the location of economic activity is correlated with the variation in relative wages.

This paper shows that the location of economic activity is correlated with the variation in relative wages.

Proving a framework for the analysis of the relationship between aggregate and individual wages.

Investigating the effects of the drastic tariff reductions of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia on the wage distribution.

This paper examines the role of international trade in the reallocation of U.S. manufacturing activity within and across industries from 1977 to 1997.

We investigate the effects of the drastic tariff reductions of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia onthe wage distribution.

Measurement errors in survey data on hourly pay may lead to serious upward bias in low pay

Forthcoming

We construct and estimate an equilibrium search model with on-the-job-search.