Human capital

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.

Over the last two decades, the wage gap between men and women has narrowed, yet a sizeable discrepancy in earnings capacity remains between seemingly identical male and female workers.

In this paper we study the sources of wage growth.

This paper uses microeconomic data from the U.K. Family Expenditure Surveys (FES) and the General Household Surveys (GHS) to describe and explain changes in the distribution of male wages.

We explore the role that economic incentives, particularly changes in wages at the bottom end of the wage distribution, play in determining crime rates.

This paper presents a life cycle model for the demand for health, and derives empirical specifications that distinguish between permanent and transitory wage responses.

In this paper a rich and innovative dataset, the International Adult Literacy Survey, is used to examine the impact of functional literacy on earnings.

This paper uses pooled cross-section data on recent school leavers in Ireland to model the determinants of labour market status and wages for young adults.

There is a vast empirical literature of the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity.

This paper analyzes the relationship between aggregate wages and individual

This paper provides a non-technical review of the evidence on the returns to education and training for the individual, the firm and the economy at large

This paper develops and estimates a human capital model of wage growth based on learning by doing.

This paper surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by examining the micro-econometric evidence.

This paper uses microeconomic data from the British Household Panel and General Household Surveys to describe how the distribution of pay differs between the public and private sectors in 1983 and in the early 1900s

This Commentary looks at public pay in detail, tracing its trend relative to the private sector over the 1980s and 1990s and showing how the gap in pay between the public and private sectors differs dramatically across occupations, gender and education groups. These findings illustrate how misleading comparisons of public and private sector pay based on aggregate data can be.