Arbeitspapier

Do students expect compensation for wage risk?

We use a unique data set about the wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex ante, deriving parametric and non-parametric measures to capture expected wage risk. These wage risk measures are unfettered by heterogeneity which handicapped the use of actual market wage dispersion as risk measure in earlier studies. Students in our sample anticipate that the market provides compensation for risk, as has been established with Risk Augmented Mincer earnings equations estimated on market data: higher wage risk for educational groups is associated with higher mean wages. With observations on risk as expected by students we find compensation at similar elasticities as observed in market data. The results are robust to different specifications and estimation models.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4069

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Wage
expectations
wage risk
risk compensation
skewness
Lohn
Risiko
Erwartungstheorie
Bildungsertrag
Studierende
Schweiz

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Schweri, Juerg
Hartog, Joop
Wolter, Stefan C.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2009

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2009033021
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Schweri, Juerg
  • Hartog, Joop
  • Wolter, Stefan C.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2009

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