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 …

Risk-averse job seekers fearing the scarring effect of unemployment meet vacancies offering contractual employment … risk and the scarring risk of unemployment. SPC diversify the income risk, but provide only limited protection against the … scarring risk. (1) Workers strictly prefer contract market to spot market jobs. (2) A higher productivity, a lower probability …

policy relevant outcomes and policy effects, that of the wage premia for fatal injury risk. Estimates of the overall hedonic …

model with idiosyncratic labor income risk. In our model economy, even a moderate earnings testing reduces individuals …

endogenous firing as well as a short-time work decision. In recessions, short-time work reduces the unemployment risk of workers …

Recent events suggest that uncertainty changes play a major role in U.S. labor market fluctuations. This study analyzes … the impact of uncertainty shocks on unemployment dynamics. Using a vector autoregression approach, we show that … uncertainty shocks measured by stock market volatility have a significant impact on the U.S. unemployment rate. We then develop a …

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. …