As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage … results confirm that subjective wage expectation data are useful in modeling individual choice. …

education and the impact of their ex ante wage expectations on college enrolment. The analysis contributes to a small developing … literature that uses subjective wage expectation data to predict education choice. We surveyed a full cohort of healthcare … starting wage when working as healthcare employee were more likely to enroll in a nursing college later on. This result …

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 …

wages of less skilled natives and a small positive effecton the wages of high skilledworkers as new immigrants are less …