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parametric and non-parametric measures to capture expected wage risk. These wage risk measures are unfettered by heterogeneity … which handicapped the use of actual market wage dispersion as risk measure in earlier studies. Students in our sample … anticipate that the market provides compensation for risk, as has been established with Risk Augmented Mincer earnings equations …
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, but with increments being smaller in the European data. Third, we find that wage risk is procyclical in Germany while it … determining the cyclical properties of labor market risk. -- Life-cycle risk ; uncertainty fluctuations ; business cycle …
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policy relevant outcomes and policy effects, that of the wage premia for fatal injury risk. Estimates of the overall hedonic …
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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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model with idiosyncratic labor income risk. In our model economy, even a moderate earnings testing reduces individuals …
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This chapter reviews the economics literature on immigrant-native differentials in occupational risk. It begins by … advanced economies, but not all. Finally, most, but not all, immigrants appear to earn risk premiums similar to natives for …
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Uncertainty faced by individual firms appears to be heterogeneous. In this paper, I construct new empirical measures of firm-level uncertainty using data from the I/B/E/S and Compustat. These new measures reveal persistent differences in the degree of uncertainty facing individual firms not...
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The 2007-2008 global financial crisis and the subsequent anemic recovery have rekindled academic interest in quantifying the impact of uncertainty on macroeconomic dynamics. This paper studies the interrelation between financial markets volatility and economic activity assuming that both...
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substantial. The second result is that true wage risk is almost three times as large as the wage variance observed after job … mobility, which is what other papers in the literature have called wage risk. This suggests a very different picture of the …
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