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Risk-adjusted returns to education
Delaney, Judith - 2019
This paper looks at the joint impact of labour market risk and selection in to the labour market on returns to … education. Accounting for non-employment risk leads to substantial changes in returns while wage risk has little impact. The … risk- adjusted returns to both high school and college for males are larger than unadjusted returns. For females, risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022693
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HDR 2007/2008 - Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
Climate change is the defining human development challenge of the 21st Century. Failure to respond to that challenge will stall and then reverse international efforts to reduce poverty. The poorest countries and most vulnerable citizens will suffer the earliest and most damaging setbacks, even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008467214
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The mechanisms to ensure the sustainability of investment banking institutions in Russia
Dzitiev, Georgy - In: Published Papers (2012)
The world financial system in the last 5 years is in a phase of increased instability. The events of 2008 have shown that the bankruptcy of major financial institutions have significant risks for the economy and society. Despite significant measures of quantitative easing and buy-out of problem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010819677
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Risk-Adjusted Returns to Education
Delaney, Judith - 2019
This paper looks at the joint impact of labour market risk and selection in to the labour market on returns to … education. Accounting for non-employment risk leads to substantial changes in returns while wage risk has little impact. The … risk- adjusted returns to both high school and college for males are larger than unadjusted returns. For females, risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059124
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Economic integration and labor market institutions : worker mobility, earnings risk, and contract structure
Schöb, Ronnie; Wildasin, David E. - 2003
This paper investigates the effects of labor market integration, in the form of worker mobility, in a model with long-term labor contracts that lead to wage rigidities and unemployment. Reflecting the interdependence of regional labor markets, we develop a general-equilibrium framework where the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276568
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Economic Integration and Labor Market Institutions: Worker Mobility, Earnings Risk, and Contract Structure
Schöb, Ronnie; Wildasin, David E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper investigates the effects of labor market integration, in the form of worker mobility, in a model with long-term labor contracts that lead to wage rigidities and unemployment. Reflecting the interdependence of regional labor markets, we develop a general-equilibrium framework where the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762229
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Generalized almost stochastic dominance
Tsetlin, Ilia; Winkler, Robert L.; Huang, Rachel J.; … - In: Operations research 63 (2015) 2, pp. 363-377
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010526703
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Do REITs outperform stocks and fixed-income assets? : new evidence from mean-variance and stochastic dominance approaches
Chiang, Thomas C.; Hooi Hooi Lean; Wong, Wing Keung - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 1 (2008) 1, pp. 1-40
This paper re-examines the performance of REITs, stocks, and fixed-income assets based on the preferences of risk …-averse and risk-seeking investors using mean-variance and stochastic dominance approaches. Our findings indicate no first … order to maximize their expected utility, the risk-averse prefer fixed-income assets over real estate, which, in turn, is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011556251
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Comparing local risks by acceptance and rejection
Schreiber, Amnon - In: Mathematical finance : an international journal of … 26 (2016) 2, pp. 412-430
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577169
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Do REITs outperform stocks and fixed-income assets? New evidence from mean-variance and stochastic dominance approaches
Chiang, Thomas C.; Lean, Hooi Hooi; Wong, Wing-keung - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 1 (2008) 1, pp. 1-40
This paper re-examines the performance of REITs, stocks, and fixed-income assets based on the preferences of risk …-averse and risk-seeking investors using mean-variance and stochastic dominance approaches. Our findings indicate no first … order to maximize their expected utility, the risk-averse prefer fixed-income assets over real estate, which, in turn, is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011843211