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Although this Polish-born labor economist has been at Columbia for most of his career, his work has been most closely connected to the research programme of the "Chicago School". In a series of early papers (1958, 1962), Mincer introduced the concept of "human capital" into labor economics and used it to explain wage differentials (before G.S. Becker or T.W. Schultz). His 1974 book, Schooling, Experience and Earnings, extrapolated the human capital thesis into the "earnings function" and the concept of "overtaking". His pioneering work on female labor force participation, fertility and demographics (1962, 1974, 1978, 1981) is very much in the spirit of the concurrent Chicago "New Institutionalist" invasion of sociological concerns such as non-market behavior (cf. Becker).
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