We examine whether income and unemployment risks are compensated by individual wages. Using a portfolio approach we … show that the marginal income risk effect on wages is always positive whereas the marginal unemployment risk effect …

wages, the relationship between wages and health is less clear-cut. What makes it most difficult to disentangle these … effects is that education, experience, health and wages are interrelated. To deal with these issues, we implement an Efficient … experience and health have positive impacts on wages. …

strong evidence that lower unemployment benefit has an adverse effect on wages. We use panel data to identify and estimate …. In eastern Germany there is no systematic difference between men and women but the negative impact on wages is confirmed. …

is declining while that of the highly educated is rising. This study estimates the impact of cohort size on wages using … effect of cohort size on individual wages rather than on the average wage of a specific age-education group which allows … controlling for potentially confounding effects at the individual level. The effect of cohort size on male wages is identified …