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This is the first of two volumes containing edited selections of Professor Mincer's essays, some of which are published here for the first time. The essays assess the impact of education and job training on wage growth and offer a study of the effects of human capital investments on labour turnover and the impact of technological change on human capital formation. Topics covered include human capital and earnings, human capital, wage growth, labour turnover and unemployment and technology and the demand for human capital. The introduction aims to provide an overview of the interconnections of the topics discussed, their conceptual coherence and empirical significance.

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'... Jacob Mincer is a master of his trade, and this mastery is no less evident in the current volume... Especially interesting in this volume are the four previously unpublished papers which address a range of issues including the relationship between education and unemployment; the relationship between job training and labour turnover; and the time-series evidence relating to the relationship between human capital technology and wage structure. Although previously unpublished, these papers demonstrate quite clearly the combination of technical skill and insight which characterizes Mincer's work, and their collection together between a single pair of covers is a fact that I am sure will be welcomed by teachers, researchers and students of labour economics alike.' -- D. Sapsford, Education Economics 'The books should... be bought by every university library. The research reported here is important, the exposition is lucid, the sequencing of chapters is sensible and the retrospective aspect of the volumes provides a fascinating insight into the working methods of one of the great economists of our time.' -- Geraint Johnes, International Journal of Manpower 'During the past thirty-odd years, Jacob Mincer has been one of the most important contributors both to the field of human capital and the labor supply of women. I strongly recommend these two volumes for the superb empirical research guided by insightful theory.' -- Gary Becker, University of Chicago, US 'Jacob Mincer is, with Gary Becker and T.W. Schultz, one of the founding figures of human capital theory. His major contributions to labour economics over 35 years are handsomely reflected in the two volumes of this collection... this is a most useful collection: it gathers together in convenient form papers which it would be impossible to track down in most university libraries. Tell your librarian to place an order.' -- J.R. Shackleton, The Economic Journal

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The late Jacob Mincer, formerly Professor of Economics, Columbia University, US

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