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this relation is driven by a link between internal economic locus of control and a lower perception of the risk of …
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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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In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … in any given period. Subjects were informed of the exogenous risk premium being offered for the risky job. Women were … gap in the experiments. That women were more risk averse than men was also manifest in the Pratt-Arrow Constant Absolute …
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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 …
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risk differ between agents and the econometrician. Our tests are based on panel data elicited yearly from British … ; income risk ; limited information variances …
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We estimate the impact of the income earned in the host country on return migration of labor migrants from developing countries. We use a three-state correlated competing risks model to account for the strong dependence of labor market status and the income earned. Our analysis is based on...
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We analyze workers' risk preferences and training investments. Our conceptual framework differentiates between the … investment risk and insurance mechanisms underpinning training decisions. Investment risk leads risk-averse workers to train less … demonstrate that risk affinity is associated with more training, implying that, on average, investment risks dominate the …
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