Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-350) and indexes.
1. Introduction: the importance of life-cycle analysis -- 2. The life-cycle human capital model -- 3. Schooling -- 4. Post-school investments -- 5. Labour supply -- 6. Gender in the labour market -- 7. Compensating wage differentials and heterogeneous human capital -- 8. Information and wages -- 9. Payment systems and internal labour markets -- 10. Unionisation.