Jacob Mincer

Jacob Mincer publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jacob Mincer sits on this spectrum.

Jacob Mincer D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jacob Mincer sits on this spectrum.

Research.com Recognitions

• 2004 - Jacob Mincer Award, the Society of Labour Economics (SOLE)
• 2002 - IZA Prize in Labor Economics, Institute for the Study of Labor
• 2000 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1989 - Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
• 1970 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• 1967 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Best Publications

• Schooling, Experience, and Earnings

  Jacob A Mincer

  11908
  Citations

• Family Investments in Human Capital: Earnings of Women

  Jacob Mincer;Solomon Polachek

  3738
  Citations

• Family Migration Decisions

  Unknown

  1184
  Citations

• Family Migration Decisions

  Unknown

  1136
  Citations

• On-the-Job Training: Costs, Returns, and Some Implications

  Unknown

  1085
  Citations

• Interrupted Work Careers: Depreciation and Restoration of Human Capital

  Unknown

  730
  Citations

• The Distribution of Labor Incomes: A Survey with Special Reference to the Human Capital Approach

  Unknown

  669
  Citations

• Human Capital and Economic Growth

  Jacob Mincer

  606
  Citations

• Investment in human capital and personal income distribution

  Unknown

  566
  Citations

• Unemployment Effects of Minimum Wages

  Jacob Mincer

  436
  Citations

• An Exchange: The Theory of Human Capital and the Earnings of Women: Women's Earnings Reexamined

  Jacob Mincer;Solomon Polachek

  348
  Citations

• Education and Unemployment

  Jacob Mincer

  320
  Citations

• Wage structures and labor turnover in the United States and Japan

  Unknown

  250
  Citations

• Economic development, growth of human capital, and the dynamics of the wage structure

  Unknown

  175
  Citations

• Intercountry Comparisons of Labor Force Trends and of Related Developments: An Overview

  Unknown

  172
  Citations

• The Evaluation of Economic Forecasts

  Jacob A. Mincer;Victor Zarnowitz

  155
  Citations

• Market prices, opportunity costs, and income effects

  Unknown

  155
  Citations

• Union Effects: Wages, Turnover, and Job Training

  Jacob Mincer

  148
  Citations

• Time-Series Changes in Personal Income Inequality in the United States from 1939, with Projections to 1985

  Barry R. Chiswick;Jacob Mincer

  143
  Citations

• Economic Forecasts and Expectations: Analysis of Forecasting Behavior and Performance.

  Charles R. Nelson;Jacob Mincer

  70
  Citations