Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35397 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4069
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Wage
expectations
wage risk
risk compensation
skewness
JEL: 
D8
I2
J2
J3
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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