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Do wage expectations influence the decision to enroll in nursing college?

Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop - 2015

As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage expectations on their choice to pursue a nursing college education. This analysis contributes to a small yet rapidly developing body of literature that uses subjective expectation...

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Do wages really compensate for risk aversion and skewness affection?

Hartog, Joop; Vijverberg, Wim P. M. - 2002

finds supportive evidence: wages rise with occupational earnings variance and decrease with skewness. In order to identify …

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Are starting wages reduced by an insurance premium for preventing wage decline? : testing the prediction of Harris and Holmstrom (1982)

Hartog, Joop; Raposo, Pedro - 2015

In the model of Harris and Holmstrom (1982) workers pay an insurance premium to prevent a wage decline. As employers are unable to assess the ability of a labour market entrant, they would offer a wage equal to expected productivity of the worker's category and adjust it with unfolding...

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Reservation wages and starting wages

Ophem, Hans van; Hartog, Joop; Berkhout, Peter - 2011

higher education graduates. On average, accepted wages are almost 8% higher than reservation wages, but there is no fixed … predict if individuals are well informed about the wage structure that characterizes their labour market. -- reservation wages … ; starting wages ; job search …

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Dual track or academic route for auditors : does it matter?

Hartog, Joop; Jonker, Nicole; Ophem, Hans van - 2002

make it easier for them to switch employers than for the part-time educated auditors. The predictions on tenure and wages …

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The effects of immigration on wages in three European countries

Hartog, Joop; Zorlu, Aslan - 2002

We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on natives' wages from two to … small effects on natives' wages and no dominant robust patterns of substitution and complementarity. Effects on wages of …

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