Schooling Experience And Earnings

Download or read book Schooling, Experience, and Earnings written by Jacob Mincer and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.