Essays on Human Capital, Wage Dispersion and Worker Mobility

This dissertation is comprised of three papers. In Chapter 1 I analyze if career heterogeneity in terms of life-cycle earnings, occupational mobility and unemployment is predominantly driven by skills acquired prior to labor market entry or by decisions made and shocks accumulated over the working l...

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Main Author: Hoffmann, Florian
Other Authors: Oreopoulos, Philip
Language:en_ca
Published: 2011
Subjects:
510
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/29751