This paper looks at the joint impact of labour market risk and selection in to the labour market on returns to … education. Accounting for non-employment risk leads to substantial changes in returns while wage risk has little impact. The … risk- adjusted returns to both high school and college for males are larger than unadjusted returns. For females, risk …

We assess to which degree an international transfer mechanism can enhance consumption risk sharing as well as … analyze the changing dynamics that a EUBS brings about. We find that a EUBS can provide risk sharing by stabilizing relative …-spending shocks. Yet, since this trade-off between allocative efficiency and consumption risk sharing does not exist after certain …

We decompose earnings risk into contributions from hours and wage shocks. To distinguish between hours shocks, modeled … shocks explain 31% of total risk, permanent hours shocks 21%. Progressive taxation attenuates cross-sectional earnings risk …

This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting … where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk … symmetric allocation will become more attractive as the probability of divorce increases, if risk aversion is high and/or labor …

policy relevant outcomes and policy effects, that of the wage premia for fatal injury risk. Estimates of the overall hedonic …

marriage is used as a proxy for divorce risk. …