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Do wages really compensate for risk aversion and skewness affection?
Hartog, Joop; Vijverberg, Wim P. M. - 2002
Utility theory suggests that foreseeable risk should increase the compensation for work. This paper expands on this … notion: on basis of utility theory, people should care not only about risk but also about the skewness in the distribution of …
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Surprising selection effects in the UK car insurance market
Cannon, Edmund S.; Cipriani, Giam Pietro; Bazar-Rosen, Katia - 2014
is much less sophisticated than that characterised by modern microeconomic theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010355706
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Nonparametric identification and stimation of nonadditive hedonic Models
Heckman, James J.; Matzkin, Rosa L.; Nesheim, Lars - 2009
This paper studies the identification and estimation of preferences and technologies in equilibrium hedonic models. In it, we identify nonparametric structural relationships with nonadditive heterogeneity. We determine what features of hedonic models can be identified from equilibrium...
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Stated and revealed heterogeneous risk preferences in educational choice
Fossen, Frank M.; Glocker, Daniela - 2014
Stated survey measures of risk preferences are increasingly being used in the literature, and they have been compared to revealed risk aversion primarily by means of experiments such as lottery choice tasks. In this paper, we investigate educational choice, which involves the comparison of risky...
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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 contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of exposure to unemployment) and a secure job after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521155
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Compensating differentials in experimental labor markets
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Robbett, Andrea - 2015
The theory of compensating differentials has proven difficult to test with observational data: the consequences of …. Instead, we construct experimental, real-effort labor markets and offer an evaluation of the theory in a controlled setting … differentials are affected by worker mobility and therefore selection. Consistent with the theory, we find that riskier firms must …
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Earnings dispersion, risk aversion and eduation
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002
We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411833
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Unemployment benefits, risk aversion, and migration incentives
Heitmueller, Axel - 2002
With reference to the EU enlargement, a framework is derived which allows the study of the effect of unemployment benefits on the migration decision. While benefits simply increase the expected gain for risk neutral individuals, they work as an insurance device for risk averse migrants; the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414113
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Risk attitudes and household migration decisions
Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Meng, Xin; … - 2017
This paper analyses the relation between individual migrations and the risk attitudes of other household members when migration is a household decision. We develop a simple model that implies that which member migrates depends on the distribution of risk attitudes among all household members,...
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The "sales agent" problem : effort choice under performance pay as behavior toward risk
Cadsby, Charles Bram; Song, Fei; Zubanov, Nick - 2017
An investor's choice between safe and risky assets has long been seen as a behavior toward risk: more risk-averse investors buy more of the safe asset. Applying this intuition to incentive pay contracts, we develop a model and an experiment that show, in a very general setting, that the choice...
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