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This paper examines whether risk-taking in a lottery depends on the opportunity to respond to the lottery outcome …/or extra labor effort. We find strong evidence that ex-post access to labor opportunities reduces ex-ante risk willingness … while access to tax evasion has no effect on risk behavior. We discuss possible explanations for this result based on the …
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percent of mean income. In this paper we use economic theory to determine the relation between the appropriate make …-whole (full) compensation and mean and median work incomes. Given that consumption uncertainty associated with compensation …
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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 …
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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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marriage is used as a proxy for divorce risk. …
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literature on the issue, both results are consistent with the notion of wage compensation for risk-averse workers. However, our …. Apparently, those at the upper end of the conditional wage distribution have both higher risk-aversion and higher affection for …
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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. …
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We study workers' idiosyncratic earnings risk over the life-cycle using a German administrative data set. Positive and … incomplete markets model. Moreover, age-varying risk implies a linear increase in consumption inequality late in working life. …
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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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applications to show the performance of the method. First, it runs a Monte Carlo simulation to show the method's performance under …
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