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Many contributions suggest that earnings instability has increased during the 1980s and 1990s. This paper develops and estimates an on-the-job search model of the labor market to study the contribution of wage inequality and job mobility in explaining earnings instability. To study the evolution...
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in the type of degree studied can explain an additional 8.4% of the male-female pay gap. Risk-augmented earnings … premiums in the job market. -- Gender wage gap ; subject of degree ; returns ; risk ; Greece …
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-employment ; wage-employment ; income distribution ; income risk ; income skew ; income variance ; occupational choice ; labor market …
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-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment Sample (IABS). We then relate these robust measures of earnings risk to the … risk attitudes of individuals working in these occupations. We find that willingness to take risk is positively correlated … with the wage dispersion of an individual's occupation. -- dispersion estimation ; earnings risk ; censoring ; quantile …
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-Economic Panel (GSOEP) within individually perceived hazards of work accidents as a risk variable, evidence for compensating wage …
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In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … in any given period. Subjects were informed of the exogenous risk premium being offered for the risky job. Women were … gap in the experiments. That women were more risk averse than men was also manifest in the Pratt-Arrow Constant Absolute …
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This paper investigates the impact of wage dispersion on firm productivity in different working environments. More precisely, it examines the interaction with: i) the skills of the workforce, using a more appropriate indicator than the standard distinction between white- and blue collar workers,...
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This paper provides a longitudinal perspective on changes in Spanish male earnings inequality for the period 1993-2000, by decomposing the earnings covariance structure into its permanent and transitory parts. According to the Spanish sample of the European Community Household Panel,...
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compensating wage differential for job safety risk revealed in the labor market via hedonic equilibrium outcomes. The decisions in …
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