Unobserved heterogeneity and risk in wage variance: does more schooling reduce earnings risk?

Jacopo Mazza; Hans van Ophem; Joop Hartog

doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2013.09.007

Unobserved heterogeneity and risk in wage variance: does more schooling reduce earnings risk?

Jacopo Mazza^*
, Hans van Ophem
, Joop Hartog

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education to data for the USA, the UK and Germany. We find that in residual wage variation, uncertainty by far dominates unobserved heterogeneity. The relation between uncertainty and level of education is not monotonic and differs among countries.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	323-338
Number of pages	16
Journal	Labour Economics
Volume	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2013.09.007
Publication status	Published - Oct 2013
Externally published	Yes

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SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

Keywords

Education
Replication
Selectivity
Unobserved heterogeneity
Wage inequality
Wage uncertainty

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