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Locus of control and investment in risky assets
Salamanca, Nicolás; Grip, Andries de; Fouarge, Didier; … - 2016
this relation is driven by a link between internal economic locus of control and a lower perception of the risk of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594548
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Should I stay or should I go? : A note on employment protection, domestic anchorage, and FDI
Dewit, Gerda (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001784184
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Delays in renewal of labor contracts : theory and evidence
Danziger, Leif (contributor); Neuman, Shoshana (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001731028
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The economics of dual job holding : a job portfolio model of labor supply
Renna, Francesco (contributor);  … - 2006
In this paper we develop a job portfolio model of dual job holding based on a Stone-Geary utility function. We derive the associated Slutsky equation components. Because the job portfolio model applies only to unconstrained dual jobholders, we separate individuals who moonlight because of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003253454
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Hedonic wage equilibrium : theory, evidence and policy
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Leeth, John D. - 2010
policy relevant outcomes and policy effects, that of the wage premia for fatal injury risk. Estimates of the overall hedonic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688722
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Gender wage gaps and risky vs. secure employment : an experimental analysis
Jung, Seeun; Choe, Chung; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521155
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Subjective income expectations and income risk
Ramos Morilla, Xavier (contributor);  … - 2006
risk differ between agents and the econometrician. Our tests are based on panel data elicited yearly from British … ; income risk ; limited information variances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003274238
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Do high-income or low-income immigrants leave faster?
Bijwaard, Govert; Wahba, Jackline - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211160
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Wage risk, employment risk and the rise in wage inequality
Mecikovsky, Ariel Matias; Wellschmied, Felix - 2016
We estimate the changes in US male labor market risk over the last three decades in a model of endogenous labor supply … a life-cycle model with search frictions, we show that the estimated changes in risk can account for 85 percent of the … increase in within group wage inequality. The welfare costs of rising risk are small. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595910
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Capital income risk and the dynamics of the wealth distribution
Hoang Van Khieu; Wälde, Klaus - 2018
In this paper, we develop and numerically solve a model of idiosyncratic labour income and idiosyncratic interest rates to predict the evolution of a wealth distribution over time. Stochastic labour income follows a deterministic growth trend and it fluctuates between a wage and unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913697