evidence from iranian households’ expenditures and income survay(iheis) in urban area shows that, average of real hourly wage against the schooling years is declining in the right tail of wage distribution between 1384 and 1390 (2005 and 2011). a tentative justification for this observation is that the private rate of return to education at upper quantiles and higher years of schooling have red...

A Note on Unhappiness and Unemployment Duration Although it is now widely-accepted that unemployment is associated with sharply lower levels of individual well-being, relatively little is known about how this effect depends on unemployment duration. Data from three large-scale European panels is used to shed light on this issue; these data allow us to distinguish habituation to unemployment fro...

Is Earnings Nonresponse Ignorable? Earnings nonresponse in the Current Population Survey is roughly 30% in the monthly surveys and 20% in the annual March survey. Even if nonresponse is random, severe bias attaches to wage equation coefficient estimates on attributes not matched in the earnings imputation hot deck. If nonresponse is ignorable, unbiased estimates can be achieved by omitting impu...

Decomposing the Gender Wage Gap in the Netherlands with Sample Selection Adjustments In this paper, we use quantile regression decomposition methods to analyze the gender gap between men and women who work full time in the Netherlands. Because the fraction of women working full time in the Netherlands is quite low, sample selection is a serious issue. In addition to shedding light on the source...

Qualifications, Discrimination, or Assimilation? An Extended Framework for Analysing Immigrant Wage Gaps In this paper, we analyze immigrant wage gaps and propose an extension of the traditional wage decomposition technique, which is a synthesis from two strains of literature on ethnic/immigrant wage differences, namely the ‘assimilation literature’ and the ‘discrimination literature’. We estim...

Wage Differentials in the 1990s in Israel: Endowments, Discrimination, and Selectivity The purpose of this paper is to investigate wage structures of professional workers in the Israeli labor market, using data from the most recent 1995 Census and correcting for selectivity at the stage of entrance into the occupation. The sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and w...

We partially identify the average treatment effect of education on earnings and nonparametrically estimate its upper bound for African, Coloured (mixed race) and White males in South Africa. We address endogenous selection into education, cohort effects and endogenous selection into work. Using the September 2007 South African Labour Force Survey, the upper bound estimates are considerably lowe...