Monograph on the economic analysis of personal investment in education and its relationship to lifetime wages, using data for White male workers of various educational levels in the USA - presents a human capital model based on aggregate earnings distribution, shows that increases in wages are due more to work experience than to age, etc., and finds that rates of return on investment in schooling decline as the educational level rises. Bibliography pp. 145 to 148 and statistical tables.

Analyzes the distribution of worker earnings across workers and over the working age as consequences of differential investments in human capital. The study also develops the human capital earnings function, an econometric tool for assessing rates of return and other investment parameters.

This volume contains essays by or about Jacob Mincer who is a founding father of modern empirical labor economics. This personal collection not only examines Mincer’s research, it also assesses the impact of his work on the careers of several important economists and includes portions of Mincer’s correspondence with those scholars. Contributors to this volume include Gary Becker and James Heckman, each of whom is a Nobel Laureate and former Mincer collaborator.

A guide to the continually evolving field of labour economics.

Earnings over the Lifecycle: The Mincer Earnings Function and Its Applications focuses on the underlying economics behind the Mincer earnings function and its robustness and relevance to policy applications.