"Economists measure the effects of immigration through the yardstick of income. This book offers a broad survey of the conventional approach but in addition, also considers better measures of welfare or well-being, offers a detailed description and evaluation of policies - rules, regulations and...

We use the method of Dominitz and Manski [1996. Eliciting student expectations of the return to schooling. <italic>Journal of Human Resources</italic> 31, no. 1: 1-26] to solicit anticipated wage distributions for continuing to a master degree or going to work after completing the bachelor degree. The means of...

We replicate Shaw (J Labor Econ 14(4):626–653, <CitationRef CitationID="CR20">1996</CitationRef>) who found that individual wage growth is higher for individuals with greater preference for risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain, and Italy, we find evidence that risk attitudes are...</citationref>