This paper studies the influence of education on labor and geographic mobility. Mobility is an important equilibrating … any factor that inhibits mobility also impedes economic adjustments. Does the high level of education in modern industrial …-specific capital predicts that education increases job duration and therefore inhibits job mobility (Jovanovic, 1979). On the other …

dynamics differ substantially by gender, education, and origin. Men face lower volatility than women, but their earnings growth …

We measure the effects of parental education on the education profile of wages. The analysis uses sibling pairs from … Women. We also use the variance across siblings in school characteristics to estimate the effects of school inputs on wages … holding family background constant. We obtained mixed evidence on whether parental education raises the return to education …

This paper uses a new survey to contrast the wages of genetically identical twins with different schooling levels … schooling increases wages by 16%, a higher estimate of the economic returns to schooling than has been previously found …

education and on success in the labor market. I use the large variation in curriculum across US high schools to identify the … effects on wages and educational attainment of specific courses of study. The main finding is that the return to additional …

, and the relative pay of teachers -- on the rate of return to education for men born between 1920 and 1949. Using earnings … education in the region where they currently reside, and other factors. A decrease in the pupil-teacher ratio from 30 to 25, for … example, is associated with a 0.4 percentage point increase in the rate of return to education. The estimated relationship …

Using panel data from 23 OECD countries, I document that wages grow more over the life-cycle in countries where job …