Human capital

This paper estimates public sector wage differentials and their changes over time for men and women in the United Kingdom using panel data from the New Earnings Survey/Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings for the period 1975 to 2006.

We provide evidence on the impact of a large-scale construction of pre-primary school facilities in Argentina.

This paper presents evidence on whether and how a household's behaviour is influenced by the presence and characteristics of its extended family.

This paper uses within-firm, plant-level data combined with geographic information on firms' overseas operations to examine how investment in low-wage economies affects firms' home-country operations.

This paper examines changes in the distribution of wages using bounds to allow for the impact of nonrandom selection into work.

This paper decomposes the sources of risk to income that individuals face over their lifetimes.

We develop a dynamic discrete choice model of training choice, employment and wage growth, allowing for job mobility, in a world where wages depend on firm-worker matches, as well as experience and tenure and jobs take time to locate.

This paper examines the effects of work-related training on direct measures of productivity.

This paper provides the first estimates of the effects of handedness on hourly earnings.

This report presents the final stage of the Employer Training Pilots impact study.

In this paper we estimate the rate of return to firm investments in human capital in the form of formal job training.

In this paper we examine the importance of heterogeneity and self-selection into schooling for the study of inequality.

This paper examines the effects of work-related training on direct measures of productivity.

This survey covers recent solutions to aggregation problems in three application areas, consumer demand analysis, consumption growth and wealth, and labor participation and wages.

In this paper we study the sources of wage growth.

In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large nutrition programme in rural Colombia on children nutritional status, school achievement and female labour supply.

This paper examines changes in the distribution of wages using bounds to allow for the impact of non-random selection into work.