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Risk aversion, gambling and the labour - leisure choice

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Starting wages respond to employer's risk

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van - 2009

Firms hiring fresh graduates face uncertainty on the future productivity of workers. Theory suggests that starting … 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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The real effects of hedge fund activism : productivity, asset allocation, and labor outcomes

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The real effects of hedge fund activism : productivity, risk, and product market competition

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Uncertainty in labor productivity and specific human capital investment

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Wage risk, employment risk and the rise in wage inequality

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We estimate the changes in US male labor market risk over the last three decades in a model of endogenous labor supply and job mobility. Across education groups permanent shocks to productivity have become more dispersed. Moreover, heterogeneity in pay across offered jobs has increased for...

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Uncertainty in Labor Productivity and Specific Human Capital Investment

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The degree of uncertainty in a worker's productivity is affected by many factors, such as worker-employer matching, technology, and macroeconomic conditions. Not surprisingly, uncertainty in labor productivity (ULP) varies across firms, industries, and economies. The question arises: How do...

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Do Employers Pay for Consistent Performance? : Evidence from the NBA

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In a world of uncertainty in which a worker's performance is variable over time and average performance is unknown when hiring, how will employers determine compensation? We develop a monitoring and signaling model where information is symmetric and parties are risk neutral. Monitoring costs...

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Labor unemployment risk and CEO incentive compensation

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