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Author: Braga, Breno
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1. Braga, Breno
Earnings Dynamics: The Role of Education Throughout a Worker's Career
Labour Economics 52 (June 2018): 83-97.
Also: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927537118300216
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Displaced Workers; Educational Attainment; Wage Dynamics; Wage Growth; Work Experience

This paper describes two stylized facts about the earnings dynamics throughout a worker's career. First, this paper shows that more educated workers have higher wage growth with work experience than less educated workers. Second, it demonstrates that more educated workers suffer greater wage losses following job displacement. I propose a model that integrates human capital accumulation and learning mechanisms that can explain these empirical findings. In the model, employers use both education and past job displacement as a signal of a worker's unobservable ability. As a result, educated workers receive more on-the-job training in the beginning of their careers. In addition, educated workers suffer greater wage losses after being laid off when potential employers learn that an educated worker is low ability.
Bibliography Citation
Braga, Breno. "Earnings Dynamics: The Role of Education Throughout a Worker's Career." Labour Economics 52 (June 2018): 83-97.
2. Braga, Breno
Schooling, Experience, Career Interruptions, and Earnings
Presented: San Diego CA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April-May 2015
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Unemployment; Wages; Work Experience

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

This paper investigates whether the returns to work experience vary with education. Different from existing literature, I distinguish the returns to actual experience from the returns to potential experience. While I find that returns to potential experience do not vary across education groups, I estimate that more educated workers have a higher wage increase with actual experience. This result is not explained by known sources of potential experience bias, as more educated workers have higher employment attachment throughout their careers. In order to rationalize these findings, I discuss a new source of potential experience bias generated by wage losses after non-working periods. Indeed, I find evidence that more educated workers suffer higher wage losses after periods of unemployment. This result explains the greater downward bias of potential experience for more educated workers.
Bibliography Citation
Braga, Breno. "Schooling, Experience, Career Interruptions, and Earnings." Presented: San Diego CA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April-May 2015.
3. Braga, Breno
Three Essays in Labor and Education Economics
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Michigan, 2014.
Also: https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/108947/bgbraga_1.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Department of Economics, University of Michigan
Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Labor Force Participation; Schooling; Wage Dynamics; Work Experience

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

The first chapter of this dissertation, "Schooling, Experience, Career Interruptions, and Earnings," uses the NLSY79 to address how past working and non-working periods affect the wage coefficient on schooling.
Bibliography Citation
Braga, Breno. Three Essays in Labor and Education Economics. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Michigan, 2014..