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While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical...
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The paper provides a theoretical foundation for the empirical regularities observed in estimations of wage consequences of overeducation and undereducation. Workers with more education than required for their jobs are observed to suffer wage penalties relative to workers with the same education...
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In a corporatist country like the Netherlands, wages should not be distinguished by union membership status, but by … larger bargaining regime effects, and sometimes substantial coverage effects. Estimation of the latter, is seriously troubled …
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We use two large Dutch datasets to estimate the Risk Augmented Mincer equation and test for risk compensation in expected earnings. We replicate earlier findings of a positive premium for risk and a negative premium for skew and add confirmation of the key results if we control for individual...
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wages to reflect this. Formal analysis supports the intuition. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of … education as an indicator of the heterogeneity that employers face. We find solid evidence that starting wages are lower if the … variance of exam grades is higher and that starting wages are lower if the skew is higher: employers shift quality risk to new …
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make it easier for them to switch employers than for the part-time educated auditors. The predictions on tenure and wages … of differently educated auditors are supported by the estimation results in this paper. The part-time, dual track appears …
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We analyse data from personnel records of a large firm producing energy and telecommunication and test for the effect of deviations between required and attained education of workers. Required education is measured as hiring standards set by the firm. We find the usual effects of over- and...
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We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on natives’ wages from two to … small effects on natives’ wages and no dominant robust patterns of substitution and complementarity. Effects on wages of …
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