Search Results - subject:"RISK COMPENSATION"

Do Students Expect Compensation for Wage Risk?

Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop; Wolter, Stefan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Classification: D8, I2, J2, J3 Keywords: wage, expectations, wage risk, risk compensation, skewness Corresponding author … specific education. For wage risk compensation to materialise students should be aware of risk and evaluate wages in view of … that risk; in other words, risk compensation should be found in expectation data, in much the same way as stock market …

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Starting Wages Respond To Employer's Risk

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

Firms hiring fresh graduates face uncertainty on the future productivity of workers. Theory suggests that starting wages reflect this, with lower pay for greater uncertainty. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of education as an indicator of the unobserved heterogeneity that...

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Starting wages respond to employer's risk

Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van - 2009

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Knowledge about aerosol injection does not reduce individual mitigation efforts

Merk, Christine; Pönitzsch, Gert; Rehdanz, Katrin - 2015

Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) is a climate engineering (CE) method that is reputed to be very effective in cooling the planet but is also thought to involve major risks and side effects. As a new option in the bid to counter climate change, it has attracted an increasing amount of...

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Do Students Expect Compensation for Wage Risk?

Schweri, Juerg; Wolter, Stefan C.; Hartog, Joop - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008

We use a unique data set about the future wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex-ante, suggesting that students use very little private information about their wage prospects. Expectations appear much more anchored to perceptions of actual contemporaneous market data....

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Is sex like driving? HIV prevention and risk compensation

Wilson, Nicholas L.; Xiong, Wentao; Mattson, Christine L. - In: Journal of Development Economics 106 (2014) C, pp. 78-91

Risk compensation has been called the “Achilles' heel” of HIV prevention policies (Cassell et al., 2006). This paper … much of Sub-Saharan Africa. Contrary to the presumption of risk compensation, we find that the response due to the …

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Is sex like driving? : HIV prevention and risk compensation

Wilson, Nicholas - In: Journal of development economics 106 (2014), pp. 78-91

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Part 3. Multivariate road safety models: Future research orientations and current use to forecast performance

Gaudry, Marc; de Lapparent, Matthieu - In: Research in Transportation Economics 37 (2013) 1, pp. 38-56

The third part of the state-of-the-art focuses on the future of road safety modeling and on conjectures concerning the evolution of national safety indicators. In the absence of econometric developments specific to road safety modeling, the research future must rely on pre-existing statistical...

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From theory to practice in road safety policy: Understanding risk versus mobility

Noland, Robert B. - In: Research in Transportation Economics 43 (2013) 1, pp. 71-84

attributes associated with them. This is an extension of other theoretical frameworks, such as risk compensation, and attempts to …

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OSHA's Role in Promoting Occupational Safety and Health

Leeth, John D. - In: Foundations and Trends(R) in Microeconomics 7 (2012) 4, pp. 267-353

When OSHA was established, proponents believed it would dramatically improve the safety and health of American workers. During the forty years of its existence, workplace fatalities and nonfatal injuries and illnesses have fallen but OSHA is not the major cause of this decline. Changes in the...

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