Earnings Functions, Specific Human Capital, and Job Matching: Tenure Bias Is Negative.

This article investigates the hypothesis that when measures of specific human capital (such as job tenure) are included in earnings functions, there may be a sample selection bias because of job-matching effects--because workers with high unobserved match quality receive and accept high wage offers....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stevens, M
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2003