As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage …. This suggests that policies that increase returns from studying nursing can attract students to nursing. In addition, the …

expectations of students is scarce. The paper presents the Swiss results of a survey that was conducted in 10 European countries …. Its main findings are that point estimates of wages after graduation are close to actual wages, whereas the expectations … of the deviation of individual expectations from actual wages can not be explained, we find that rates of return to …

We use a unique data set about the wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex ante, deriving … which handicapped the use of actual market wage dispersion as risk measure in earlier studies. Students in our sample … estimated on market data: higher wage risk for educational groups is associated with higher mean wages. With observations on …

students possess before their decision on tertiary education participation. The sample is prone to selective participation and …

Given a severe nurse shortage in Switzerland, this paper investigates Swiss students choice for nursing college … suggests a role for policies that increase returns from studying nursing to attract students to nursing. In addition, the …