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Mincerian

Mincerian adjective: of or pertaining to the economist Jacob Mincer (1922–2006).

Adjective

Mincerian (comparative more Mincerian, superlative most Mincerian)

  1. Of or pertaining to the economist Jacob Mincer (1922–2006).
    • Their method, unlike that of Mankiw et al. (1992), explicitly ties human capital to evidence on the Mincerian wage return to years of schooling.2025, Timo Boppart, Peter J. Klenow, “Growth”, in Marina Azzimonti, Per Krusell, Alisdair McKay, Toshihiko Mukoyama, editors, Macroeconomics, December 2025

Forms of Mincerian

comparativemore Mincerian
superlativemost Mincerian

Origin of Mincerian

From Mincer + -ian.

Questions about Mincerian

What does Mincerian mean?
Mincerian means of or pertaining to the economist Jacob Mincer (1922–2006).
What part of speech is Mincerian?
Mincerian is an adjective.

Words near Mincerian in the dictionary

  1. mincemeats
  2. mincemeaty
  3. mincepie
  4. mincepies
  5. mincer
  6. Mincerian
  7. mincers
  8. minces
  9. minces one's words
  10. minces up
  11. minces words

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