Do students expect compensation for wage risk?

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 215-227

  Schweri, Juerg ^a   Hartog, Joop ^b   Wolter, Stefan C ^c  

^a Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Expectations; Risk compensation; Skewness; Wage; Wage risk

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; STUDENT; WAGE;

EID: 79952187816     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

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