Download or read book Jacob Mincer written by Shoshana Grossbard and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-06-26 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains essays by or about Jacob Mincer who is a founding father of modern empirical labor economics. This personal collection not only examines Mincer’s research, it also assesses the impact of his work on the careers of several important economists and includes portions of Mincer’s correspondence with those scholars. Contributors to this volume include Gary Becker and James Heckman, each of whom is a Nobel Laureate and former Mincer collaborator.