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There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on the opportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on...
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virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of … heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical models, laments the absence of a good workhorse model and points out the challenges … worth tackling: document ex ante risk that investors face, develop a tractable and malleable analytical model and integrate …
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risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed … to attitudes towards risk taking. …
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We use two large Dutch datasets to estimate the Risk Augmented Mincer equation and test for risk compensation in … expected earnings. We replicate earlier findings of a positive premium for risk and a negative premium for skew and add … educations but obtain identical risk compensation. Among recent graduates, women receive higher risk compensation than men …
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We survey the literature on the Risk Augmented Mincer equation that seeks to estimate the compensation for uncertainty …
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risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed … to attitudes towards risk taking. …
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the literature on wage effects we add a breakdown of variances in heterogeneity and risk. …
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risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed … to attitudes towards risk taking. …
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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 evidence that risk attitudes are relevant but support is …
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risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed … to attitudes towards risk taking. …
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