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House price volatility and the housing ladder
Banks, James; Blundell, Richard W.; Oldfield, Zoe͏̈; … - 2010
This paper investigates the effects of housing price risk on housing choices over the lifecycle. Housing price risk can be substantial but, unlike other risky assets which people can avoid, the fact that most people will eventually own their home creates an insurance demand for housing assets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009006946
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Housing mobility and downsizing at older ages in Britain and the United States
Banks, James; Blundell, Richard W.; Oldfield, Zoe͏̈; … - 2010
This paper investigates the effects of housing price risk on housing choices over the lifecycle. Housing price risk can be substantial but, unlike other risky assets which people can avoid, the fact that most people will eventually own their home creates an insurance demand for housing assets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009006985
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The role of worker flows in the dynamics and distribution of UK unemployment
Elsby, Michael W. L.; Smith, Jennifer C.; Wadsworth, … - 2011
and flows via non-participation. Close to two-thirds of the volatility of unemployment in the UK over this period can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309634
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Earnings and labour market volatility in Britain
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Jenkins, Stephen - 2013
We provide new evidence about earnings and labour market volatility in Britain over the period 1992-2008, and for women … as well as men. (Most research about volatility refers to earnings volatility for US men.) We show that earnings … volatility declined slightly for both men and women over the period but the changes are not statistically significant. When we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009770646
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More education, less volatility? : the effect of education on earnings volatility over the life cycle
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2017
little evidence about whether having more education causes employees to experience lower earnings volatility or shelters them … 1972 increase in compulsory schooling on earnings volatility over the life cycle. Our estimates suggest that men exposed to … evidence that education affects earnings volatility of older men. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011743598
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Trading while sleepy? : circadian mismatch and excess volatility in a global experimental asset market
Dickinson, David L.; Chaudhuri, Ananish; … - 2017
Traders in global markets operate at different local times-of-day. Suboptimal times-of-day may produce sleepiness due to daily variations in sleep/wake patterns and possibly also increased accumulation of hours awake. Global asset markets imply significantly increased heterogeneity in circadian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731909
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407951
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Immigration, working conditions, and compensating differentials
Sparber, Chad; Zavodny, Madeline - 2020
The large inflow of less-educated immigrants that the United States has received in recent decades can worsen or improve U.S. natives' labor market opportunities. Although there is a general consensus that low-skilled immigrants tend to hold "worse" jobs than U.S. natives, the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288356
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Compensation for earnings risk under worker heterogeneity
Berkhout, Peter (contributor); Hartog, Joop (contributor);  … - 2006
We use two large Dutch datasets to estimate the Risk Augmented Mincer equation and test for risk compensation in expected earnings. We replicate earlier findings of a positive premium for risk and a negative premium for skew and add confirmation of the key results if we control for individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003309271
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Fiscal policy, interest rate spreads, and the zero lower bound
Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko; Schabert, Andreas - 2015
This paper questions unconventional fiscal policy effects when the monetary policy rate is at the zero lower bound. We provide evidence for the US that the spread between the policy rate and the US-LIBOR, which is more relevant for private sector transactions, increases with government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510610