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Finis Welch
Researcher at Texas A&M University
Publications - 95
Citations - 10911
Finis Welch is an academic researcher from Texas A&M University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Wage & Earnings. The author has an hindex of 39, co-authored 95 publications receiving 10628 citations. Previous affiliations of Finis Welch include University of California, Los Angeles & Southern Methodist University.
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Handbook of the economics of education
TL;DR: The Handbooks in the Economics of Education as discussed by the authors provides a broad overview of the state of the art in the field of education and its economic and social effects, with a focus on the value of an education.
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Education in Production
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the question: Why has the incentive been maintained for a relative expansion in the supply of skilled labor in the United States? Three alternative explanations are considered, and one is pursued with an empirical analysis of factors determining relative wages among skill classes in agriculture.
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The Structure of Wages
Kevin M. Murphy,Finis Welch +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the structure of wages among white men distinguished by age and schooling for the period from 1963 to 1989 and compared shifts in the distribution of wages and employment among the age x schooling categories to show in reference to a stable demand structure that employment alone cannot account for observed changes in relative wages.
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Effects of Cohort Size on Earnings: The Baby Boom Babies' Financial Bust
TL;DR: In this paper, a career-phase model was used to examine the relationship between cohort size and wages, and the main result is that income-depressant effects of cohort size decline over the c...
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Empirical Age-Earnings Profiles
Kevin M. Murphy,Finis Welch +1 more
TL;DR: The human capital earnings function, in which earnings are expressed as a quadratic in potential experience, is probably the most widely accepted empirical specification in economics as discussed by the authors, but it provides a poor approximation of the true empirical relationship between earnings and experience, and the standard formulation understates early career earnings growth by about 30%-50% and overstates midcareer growth by 20%-50%.