ability has a stronger impact on entrepreneurial incomes than on wages. Entrepreneurs and employees benefit from different … sets of specific abilities: Language and clerical abilities have a stronger impact on wages, whereas mathematical, social … generates a higher income, but only for entrepreneurs: This finding supports Lazear's Jack-of-all-Trades theory. …

the compensation paid. In particular, because the degree of risk aversion ought to decrease with income, people should … finds supportive evidence: wages rise with occupational earnings variance and decrease with skewness. In order to identify …

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 employers face. We find solid evidence that starting wages are lower …

This study investigates the extent of labour market competition among nativeDutch workers and ethnicminorities, using … national survey of the SEO and the Population statistics ofthe CBS. Firstly, the directeffect of immigrants on local labour … wages of less skilled natives and a small positive effecton the wages of high skilledworkers as new immigrants are less …

wages given up as an employee.Information on income from self-employment is of inferior quality and this is not just … it is not only the location of an income distribution thatmatters and that dispersion and (a)symmetry should not be …