This paper investigates the role of labor market attachment, on-the-job human capital accumulation, and occupational sorting in the narrowing gender earnings gap over the past three decades. Many of the observe changes, such as labor market attachment, experience and occupation choice are endogenous. We formulate of a dynamic general equilibrium model of earnings determination and estimate it u...

The indicator for employment by occupation comprises statistics on jobs classified according to major groups as defined in one or more versions of the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO). The most recent version of the International Standard of Occupation, ISCO-08, distinguishes 10 major groups: (1) Managers; (2) Professionals; (3) Technicians and associate professionals...

My article, Profiling the New Immigrant Worker: The Effects of Skin Color and Height, presents strong evidence that darker skin color is associated with lower wages for new legal immigrants to the United States. Taking into account education, English language proficiency, occupation in the source country, and family background, as well as Hispanic ethnicity, race, and country of birth, I found ...