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This paper reviews Jacob Mincer?s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through his pioneering focus on labor market experience or on-the-job training. It begins with a brief discussion of the theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the...
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Although economic agents routinely face various types of economic uncertainty, their effects are often unclear and hard … to assess, in part due to the absence of suitable measures of uncertainty. Because of the numerous and very substantial … their periods of uncertainty, moreover, these countries have experienced sharply falling fertility rates. Some have argued …
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The probability triangle (also called the Marschak-Machina triangle) allows for compact and intuitive depictions of … risk preferences. Here, we develop an analogous tool for choice under uncertainty - the ambiguity triangle - and show that … characterize this heterogeneity with finite-mixture estimates of a one-parameter extension of Expected Utility Theory wherein 48 …
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Although economic agents routinely face various types of economic uncertainty, their effects are often unclear and hard … to assess, in part due to the absence of suitable measures of uncertainty. Because of the numerous and very substantial … their periods of uncertainty, moreover, these countries have experienced sharply falling fertility rates. Some have argued …
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the uncertainty indicator increases the probability of having frozen hiring in between 21% to 39%. We also find more …Uncertainty affects employers' decisions on labour workforce, as it does on capital. We exploit differences on how … firms adjust their labour work-force when uncertainty increases. Using data from the Wage Dynamic Network Survey for 25 …
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Probabilistic risk beliefs are key drivers of economic and health decisions, but people are not always certain about their beliefs. We study these "imprecise probabilities", also known as ambiguous beliefs. We show that imprecision is measurable separately from the levels of risk beliefs. People...
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involves some level of uncertainty, so differences in examination behavior may be due to differences in motivation, risk …
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institutional uncertainty (and of its elimination) on job creation and job destruction in the CEEC candidate countries. We conclude … that structural change on CEEC labor markets tends to be fostered via reducing institutional uncertainty. However, these … value analysis, we investigate and evaluate the trade-off between lower institutional uncertainty and higher employment …
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exchange rate uncertainty. Based on this micro foundation an aggregation approach is presented. Under uncertainty, intervals of … where the aggregation of microeconomic real options effects under uncertainty are relevant, they may even be of a more …
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This paper adds to the current literature on incomplete contracting that argues that deviating from a complete information, transaction-cost free environment may be may generate valuable insights. We achieve this by assuming bargaining with asymmetric information. We consider the consequences of...
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