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Is there a Return-Risk Link in Education?
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2001
Risk averse investors have to be compensated in higher expected returns when facing investments with higher risk … return to education and the risk involved in this investment. It seems that most of the countries fit the pattern well …: higher risk – higher return. …
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The gender wage gap as a function of educational degree choices in an occupationally segregated EU country
Livanos, Ilias; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2009
in the type of degree studied can explain an additional 8.4% of the male-female pay gap. Risk-augmented earnings …
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Risk attitude and wage growth: replication and reconstruction
Budría, Santiago; Diaz-Serrano, Luis; … - 2009
risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed … to attitudes towards risk taking. …
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Doctors Without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel
Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M. - 2002
Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...
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