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wages reflect this, with lower pay for greater uncertainty. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of education … as an indicator of the unobserved heterogeneity that employers face. We find solid evidence that starting wages are lower …
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wages to reflect this. Formal analysis supports the intuition. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of … education as an indicator of the heterogeneity that employers face. We find solid evidence that starting wages are lower if the … variance of exam grades is higher and that starting wages are lower if the skew is higher: employers shift quality risk to new …
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We extract estimation results on the Mincer earnings function from four earlier studies and add new results from a recent dataset. We analyse differences related to differences in earnings concepts, in sampling frame and differences among studies that cannot be explained. Jointly, the studies...
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As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage expectations on their choice to pursue a nursing college education. This analysis contributes to a small yet rapidly developing body of literature that uses subjective expectation...
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We develop a simple human capital model for optimum schooling length when earnings are stochastic, and highlight the pivotal role of risk attitudes and the schooling gradient of earnings risk. We use Spanish data to document the gradient and to estimate individual response to earnings risk in...
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make it easier for them to switch employers than for the part-time educated auditors. The predictions on tenure and wages …
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Students' choices in education can only be based on expected outcomes. Econometric models that infer expectations based on ex post outcomes impose a rational structure of expectations on school performance and post-graduation earnings. Direct surveys suggest much ignorance and fuzziness. We use...
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finds supportive evidence: wages rise with occupational earnings variance and decrease with skewness. In order to identify …
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