Investigates the influences of occupational earnings of full-year male workers. Implications of human capital investment; Effects of the female proportion of employment on men's earnings; Significance of education for earnings. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

After providing an introduction to the symposium as a whole, this paper argues that basic changes are needed in this country's immigration policy to cope with the large flow of migrants who have entered the United States illegally in recent years. Fogel attacks the position, described best in...

The firm's internal occupational wage differentials and their possible causes are here examined, by means of theoretical analysis and of empirical investigation. The theoretical analysis suggests labor market pressures and wage expectations as principal external causes for such differentials,...

On the basis of 1960 Census data, this study shows that a given educational attainment has less income value for disadvantaged minority groups than for the majority (referred to as "Anglos"). The hypothesis is partially substantiated that the more closely members of a minority group approach the...

Evidence that wages in the public sector tend to be higher than in the private sector in the United States. Problems of pay policies in the private sector market; Analysis of the politics of wage setting. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)