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Performance pay, risk attitudes and job satisfaction

Cornelißen, Thomas; Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2008

We present a sorting model in which workers with greater ability and greater risk tolerance move into performance pay … confirm testable implications drawn from our sorting model. First, prior to controlling for earnings, workers in performance …. While these findings support the sorting model, they would not be suggested by the classic agency model. …

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Intergenerational Transmission of Risk Attitudes: A Revealed Preference Approach

Leuermann, Andrea; Necker, Sarah - 2011

This study investigates whether the willingness to take income risks revealed by occupational choice is transmitted from parents to their children. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find that fathers' riskiness of job is a significant determinant of children's...

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Natives, the foreign-born and high school equivalents : new evidence on the returns to the GED

Clark, Melissa A.; Jaeger, David A. - 2002

, among whom GED recipients earn less than high school graduates but significantly more than dropouts. The effects for natives …

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Natives, the Foreign-Born and High School Equivalents : New Evidence on the Returns to the Ged

Jaeger, David A.; Clark, Melissa A. - 2021

, among whom GED recipients earn less than high school graduates but significantly more than dropouts. The effects for natives …

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Natives, the foreign-born and high school equivalents : new evidence on the returns to the GED

Clark, Melissa A.; Jaeger, David A. - 2002

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High School Types, Academic Performance and Early Labour Market Outcomes

Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2021

Using microdata on the 1995 cohort of Italian high school graduates, this paper studies the relationship between the …

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Gender differences in risk aversion: Do single-sex environments affect their development?

Booth, Alison; Sosa, Lina Cardona; Nolen, Patrick - 2011

Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first year college students who made choices over real-stakes lotteries at two distinct dates....

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Cognitive skills, gender and risk preferences

Booth, Alison L.; Katic, Pamela - 2012

In this paper we utilise data from a unique new birth-cohort study to see how the risk preferences of young people are affected by cognitive skills and gender. We find that cognitive ability (measured by the percentile ranking for university entrance at age 18) has no effect on risk preferences...

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Career preferences and socio-economic background

Schüle, Paul - 2023

Career decisions, that is educational and occupational choice, are not only made by comparing expected incomes, but also by considering non-monetary rewards like social impact, chances of promotion, or the compatibility of work and family. In this paper, I use rich panel data from Germany to...

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Responsibility or autonomy : children and the probability of self-employment in the USA

Caballero, Gustavo A. - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 49 (2017) 2, pp. 493-512

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