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Starting wages respond to employer's risk
Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van - 2009
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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Starting wages respond to employer's risk
Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003874449
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Starting wages respond to employer's risk
Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van - In: Scottish journal of political economy : the journal of … 61 (2014) 3, pp. 229-260
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Starting wages respond to employer's risk
Berkhout, Peter (contributor); Hartog, Joop (contributor) - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003557354
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Starting Wages Respond to Employer's Risk
Berkhout, Peter H. G. - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775984
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Risk attitudes and wage growth : replication and reconstruction
Budria, Santi; Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2009 - This draft: March 18, 2009
We replicate Shaw (1996) who found that individual wage growth is higher for individuals with greater preference for risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed support for the earlier results. We present and estimate a...
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Job complexity and wages
Ophem, Hans van - In: International economic review 34 (1993) 4, pp. 853-872
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If you are so smart, why aren't you an entrepreneur?
Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van; Sluis, Justin van der - 2008
ability has a stronger impact on entrepreneurial incomes than on wages. Entrepreneurs and employees benefit from different … sets of specific abilities: Language and clerical abilities have a stronger impact on wages, whereas mathematical, social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376647
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Overeducation, Wages and Promotions within the Firm
Groeneveld, Sandra; Hartog, Joop - 2021
We analyse data from personnel records of a large firm producing energy and telecommunication and test for the effect of deviations between required and attained education of workers. Required education is measured as hiring standards set by the firm. We find the usual effects of over- and...
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The labor market in the Netherlands, 2001-2016 : overall, employment and wages were accompanied by a rise in part-time work and a decline in job security
Hartog, Joop; Salverda, Wiemer - 2018
The Netherlands is an example of a highly institutionalized labor market that places considerable attention on equity concerns. The government and social partners (unions and industry associations) seek to adjust labor market arrangements to meet the challenges of increased international...
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