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The Experience‐Earnings Profile in Australia

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  • JEFF BORLAND
  • ANTHONY SUEN

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This paper investigates the goodness‐of‐fit' and effect on estimates of the experience‐earnings profile of alternative specifications of the human capital earnings function for a sample of full‐time male workers in Australia. It is concluded that it is difficult to differentiate between specifications of the earnings function which include a cubic experience term, cubic plus quartic experience terms, or a linear spline function in experience–each of these specifications appears to marginally dominate the quadratic specification and a non‐parametric approach. A modified Gompertz function is found to perform poorly.

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  • Jeff Borland & Anthony Suen, 1994. "The Experience‐Earnings Profile in Australia," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 70(208), pages 44-55, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecorec:v:70:y:1994:i:208:p:44-55
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.1994.tb01824.x
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