STUDIES IN HUMAN CAPITAL

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

• Part 1 Human capital and earnings: investment in human capital and personal income distribution; the distribution of labour incomes; human capital and earnings. Part 2 Human capital, wage growth, labour turnover and unemployment: on the job training - costs, returns and some implications; labour mobility and wages; wage changes in job changes; education and unemployment; job training, wage growth and labour turnover; job training - costs, returns and wage profiles. Part 2 Technology and the demand for human capital: human capital and economic growth; wage structures and labour turnover in the United States and Japan; human capital responses to technological change in the labour market; human capital, technology and the wage structure.

'. . . 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 Especially interesting in this volume are the four previously unpublished papers which address a range of issues including the relationship between education and unemployment; the relationship between job training and labour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 Although previously unpublished, these papers demonstrate quite clearly the combination of technical skill and insight which characterizes Mincer's work, and their collection together between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.'