earnings gaps match those in early life health and test scores already established. It also addresses caveats in the earlier … relative increase in the probability of blacks going to college; and ii) a similar convergence in relative earnings that is … variation in racial convergence across birth states matches the patterns in the earlier study. The magnitude of the earnings …

status – not working, public sector employment, private sector employment and self-employment – and earnings for each of the …

, that attending the longer and more academic vocational track may have led to increased earnings in the long run. …

little evidence of a causal effect on long term outcomes such as years of schooling and earnings, and studies that do not …

This paper develops and applies a method for decomposing cross section variability of earnings into components that are …

earnings in the first years of the career. I estimate the reduced-form effect of the school entry law on starting wages and …

-European childhood immigrants and of those from Southern Europe suffer a wage disadvantage relative to natives, men to a larger extent …

Expected earnings and expected returns to education are seen by labor economists as a major determinant of educational … replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage …