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The radical innovation investment decision refined
Bilkic, Natasa; Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim A. - 2013
stochastic shocks imply that investment in radical innovation may very often be too time consuming and/or expensive to remain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293106
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On Measuring Uncertainty: Snakes and Ladders
Junankar, Pramod N. (Raja) - 2016
households and lower investment by firms, and hence leads to lower aggregate investment and growth. This paper argues that … although risk can be measured, uncertainty cannot be measured. Even though risk can be measured, a simple symmetric measure … attempt at "measuring" risk or (fundamental) uncertainty is flawed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559672
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The Radical Innovation Investment Decision Refined
Bilkic, Natasa; Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
stochastic shocks imply that investment in radical innovation may very often be too time consuming and/or expensive to remain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791525
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Dynamic female labor supply
Eckstein, Zvi; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2009
The increase in female employment and participation rates is one of the most dramatic economic changes to have taken place during the last century. However, while the employment rate of married women more than doubled during the last fifty years, that of unmarried women remained almost constant....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269438
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A risk augmented mincer earnings equation? Taking stock
Hartog, Joop - 2009
We survey the literature on the Risk Augmented Mincer equation that seeks to estimate the compensation for uncertainty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271303
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Risk attitude and wage growth: replication and reconstruction
Budría, Santiago; Diaz-Serrano, Luis; … - 2009
risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed … to attitudes towards risk taking. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271888
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Heterogeneous life-cycle profiles, income risk and consumption inequality
Primiceri, Giorgio E.; van Rens, Thijs - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276396
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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - 2000
Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely to settle permanently in the United States, (2)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262427
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The narrowing of the US gender earnings gap, 1959 - 1999: a cohort-based analysis
Weinberger, Catherine; Kuhn, Peter - 2006
Using Census and Current Population Survey data spanning 1959 through 1999, we assess the relative contributions of two factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men's and women's age-earnings profiles, versus changes in relative earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267640
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Economic mobility, family background, and the well-being of children in the United States and Canada
Corak, Miles; Curtis, Lori; Phipps, Shelley - 2010
representative household surveys we find that the configuration of all three sources of investment and support for children differs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269450