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Risky business : the role of individual risk attitudes in occupational choice

Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2010

This study analyzes the relationship of individual risk attitudes and occupational sorting with respect to occupational … effects of personality traits in labor market decisions. -- Risk attitudes ; occupational sorting ; earnings risk ; mundlak …Diese Studie analysiert den Zusammenhang von individueller Risikoeinstellung und Berufswahl anhand des Lohnrisikos …

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Earning to Give : Occupational Choice for Effective Altruists

Morduch, Jonathan - 2018

Effective altruists wish to do good while optimizing the social performance they deliver. We apply this principle to the labor market. We determine the optimal occupational choice of a socially motivated worker who has two mutually exclusive options: a job with a for-profit firm and a lower-paid...

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College Majors and the Knowledge Content of Jobs

Freeman, James A. - 2008

College students select their majors for a variety of reasons, including expected returns in the labor market. This paper demonstrates an empirical method that links a census of U.S. degrees and fields of study with measures of the knowledge content of jobs. The study combines individual wage...

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The Occupations and Human Capital of U.S. Immigrants

Schoellman, Todd - 2009

This paper estimates the multi-dimensional human capital endowments of immigrants by characterizing their occupational decisions. This approach allows for estimation of physical skill and cognitive ability endowments, which are difficult to measure directly. Estimation implies that immigrants as...

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Occupations after WWII : The Legacy of Rosie the Riveter

Bellou, Andriana - 2013

WWII induced a dramatic increase in female labor supply, which persisted over time, particularly for women with higher education. Using Census micro data we study the qualitative aspects of this long term increase through the lenses of the occupations women held after the war. Almost two decades...

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The Effects of Occupational Knowledge : Job Information Centers, Educational Choices, and Labor Market Outcomes

Saniter, Nils Peter - 2014

This study examines the causal link between individuals' occupational knowledge, educational choices, and labor market outcomes. We proxy occupational knowledge with mandatory visits to job information centers (JICs) in Germany while still attending school. Exogenous variation in the location...

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Multidimensional Skill Mismatch

Guvenen, Fatih - 2019

What determines the earnings of a worker relative to his peers in the same occupation? What makes a worker fail in one occupation but succeed in another? More broadly, what are the factors that determine the productivity of a worker-occupation match? In this paper, we propose an empirical...

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Wage Determination in Social Occupations : The Role of Individual Social Capital

Hotchkiss, Julie L. - 2016

We make use of predicted social and civic activities (social capital) to account for selection into "social" occupations. Individual selection accounts for more than the total difference in wages observed between social and non-social occupations. The role that individual social capital plays in...

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Wage Determination in Social Occupations : The Role of Individual Social Capital

Hotchkiss, Julie L. - 2016

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Comparative Advantage, Segmentation and Informal Earnings : A Marginal Treatment Effects Approach

Arias, Omar - 2009

employment carries significant earnings penalties, alongside negative selection bias and modest positive sorting. These results …

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