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Wage Premiums

"Wage Premium" is a human capital metric that quantifies the additional earnings associated with a specific characteristic, skill, education level, or employment condition relative to a baseline or reference group, reflecting the labor market’s valuation of that attribute.

330

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20K

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512

Authors

338

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

60

Variants

Wage Premium

Parents

Publications

330

Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage Inequality*

David Card, Jörg Heining, Patrick Kline · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2013 · 1.3K citations · Full text

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Firms and Labor Market Inequality: Evidence and Some Theory

David Card, Ana Rute Cardoso, Joerg Heining et al. · Journal of Labor Economics · 2017 · 865 citations · Full text

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Job Displacement and Mortality: An Analysis Using Administrative Data<sup>*</sup>

Daniel G. Sullivan, Till von Wachter · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2009 · 837 citations

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Wage determinants: A survey and reinterpretation of human capital earnings functions

Robert Willis · RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 1987 · 656 citations

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Putting Tasks to the Test: Human Capital, Job Tasks, and Wages

David Autor, Michael Handel · Journal of Labor Economics · 2013 · 620 citations

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Authors

512

  1. DC
    David Card

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    7 publications · 2.3K citations

    7

    h-index

  2. PK
    Patrick Kline

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    6 publications · 2.3K citations

    6

    h-index

  3. JH
    Jörg Heining

    Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung, Germany

    4 publications · 1.4K citations

    4

    h-index

  4. PC
    Peter Cappelli

    University of Pennsylvania, United States

    4 publications · 407 citations

    4

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  5. IW
    Ian Walker

    Institute for Fiscal Studies, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 183 citations

    3

    h-index

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Institutions

338

  1. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    14 h-index

    20 publications

    1.9K citations

  2. IZA - Institute of Labor Economics

    Bonn, Germany

    14 h-index

    26 publications

    655 citations

  3. Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung

    Nuremberg, Germany

    11 h-index

    17 publications

    1.5K citations

  4. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    9 h-index

    18 publications

    6.2K citations

  5. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    8 h-index

    11 publications

    804 citations

  6. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    399 citations

  7. The University of Melbourne

    Melbourne, Australia

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    95 citations

  8. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    623 citations

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Venues

  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 27 publications · 615 citations

    15

    h-index

  2. Industrial and Labor Relations Review

    18 publications · 763 citations

    15

    h-index

  3. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

    Repository · 15 publications · 956 citations

    12

    h-index

  4. Journal of Labor Economics

    JOLE · 8 publications · 2.1K citations

    8

    h-index

  5. Applied Economics Letters

    7 publications · 179 citations

    7

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