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exogenous risk and delegation. That is, we show that only if exogenous risk is sufficiently large, the risk-neutral principal … may prefer to delegate authority over decisions to the risk-averse agent. Intuitively, for incentive reasons, the … principal may optimally want to allow the agent to reduce his risk exposure. Nevertheless, even endogenous risk may be higher …
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in the type of degree studied can explain an additional 8.4% of the male-female pay gap. Risk-augmented earnings …
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Was the increase in income inequality in the US due to permanent shocks or merely to an increase in the variance of transitory shocks? The implications for consumption and welfare depend crucially on the answer to this question. We use CEX repeated cross-section data on consumption and income to...
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We analyze the role of risk-sharing institutions in transitions to modern economies. Transitions requires individual …-level risk-taking in pursuing productivity-enhancing activities including using and developing new knowledge. Individual …-level, idiosyncratic risk implies that distinct risk-sharing institutions - even those providing the same level of insurance - can lead to …
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uninsurable labor income risk, and economic growth in a small open overlapping-generations economy with heterogeneous agents. It …
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In this paper we test for risk compensation in wages using Danish panel data. With the conviction that the type of … Danish population to calculate different measures of earnings risk by education. Our long panel data set also allows us to … components in wage compensation. We also experiment with new measures of earnings risk based on transitory intertemporal …
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In this paper we investigate the effect of labour income uncertainty on the probability of home ownership in Germany and Spain. This study is motivated by two facts. Firstly, theoretical models provide ambiguous results in this issue. Secondly, there is limited previous empirical evidence and...
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With the extension of its competence for social policy legislation in the Maastricht and Amsterdam treaties, the EU has adopted a significantly new social dimension in the past ten years. According to the Copenhagen criteria, the CEEC candidate countries have to adopt the former via the acquis...
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This paper derives optimal employment contracts when workers are risk averse and there are employment and unemployment … during employment but dismissal delays insure partially against the unemployment risk because of moral hazard. During the …
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-occupancy propensities is driven by risk aversion, as it is assumed in most of the theoretical models, or on the contrary it is driven by … driven by households? risk aversion, while credit constraints play no role. …
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