Jacob Mincer

Pedro N. Teixeira is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Porto and Senior Researcher at CIPES - Portuguese National Research Centre on Higher Education Policy and CEMPRE - Research Centre on Macroeconomics and Forecasting (Department of Economics - University of Porto). He is also affiliated with IZA and with PROPHE - Program of Research on Private Higher Education. He completed his PhD in Economics in 2003 (University of Exeter) and has also earned a Masters in the Economics of Higher Education at CHEPS (University of Twente, The Netherlands) and a BA in Economics from the University of Porto (Portugal).

• 1: Introduction: A Brief Portrait of Jacob Mincer 2: The Changing Role of Education in Economic Analysis 3: Placing Human Capital at the Center of Income Distribution 4: Appraising the Impact of the Human Capital Research Program 5: Human Capital and the Long-term View of the Labor Market 6: Human Capital and Labor Market Dynamics 7: The Influence of Jacob Mincer on Modern Labor Economics 8: The Human Capital Labor Economist