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generation. This kind of dynamic risk-sharing can provide insurance against macroeconomic risk. Using the widespread welfare …
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We investigate the interdependence of debt financing and R&D activities of young firms. Using micro-level data of the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel, our estimation results show that firm characteristics are more important than personal characteristics of the founders for explaining young firms'...
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-care infrastructure concerning children, which either fosters or restricts a sustainable risk management between family and work in the …
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stereotype of risk averse and less competitive older employees. …
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Investing in human capital increases lifetime income, but these investments may involve substantial risk. In this paper … vocational high school. Accounting for risk does little to change this picture. By contrast, vocational high school is associated …
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We investigate how emigration flows from a developing region are affected by xenophobic violence at destination. Our empirical analysis is based on a unique survey among more than 1000 households, collected in Mozambique in summer 2008, a few months after a series of xenophobic attacks in South...
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This paper proposes that risk aversion encourages individuals to invest in balanced skill profiles, making them more … the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch … university graduates provides evidence which supports this contention. It thereby raises the possibility that even risk …
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assess heritability in attitudes towards economic risk, and the extent to which this heritability differs between males and … risk are moderately heritable, with about 20 percent of the variation in these attitudes across individuals being linked to …) and Zhong, Chew, Set, Zhang, Xue, Sham, Ebstein and Israel (2009). While females are more risk averse than males, there is …
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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 … educations but obtain identical risk compensation. Among recent graduates, women receive higher risk compensation than men …
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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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