Jacob Mincer

Pedro N. Teixeira is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Porto and Senior Researcher at CIPES - Portuguese National Research Centre on Higher Education Policy and CEMPRE - Research Centre on Macroeconomics and Forecasting (Department of Economics - University of Porto). He is also affiliated with IZA and with PROPHE - Program of Research on Private Higher Education. He completed his PhD in Economics in 2003 (University of Exeter) and has also earned a Masters in the Economics of Higher Education at CHEPS (University of Twente, The Netherlands) and a BA in Economics from the University of Porto (Portugal).

• 1. Introduction: A Brief Portrait of Jacob Mincer ; 2. The Changing Role of Education in Economic Analysis ; 3. Placing Human Capital at the Center of Income Distribution ; 4. Appraising the Impact of the Human Capital Research Program ; 5. Human Capital and the Long-term View of the Labor Market ; 6. Human Capital and Labor Market Dynamics ; 7. The Influence of Jacob Mincer on Modern Labor Economics ; 8. The Human Capital Labor Economist

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