Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance: Does Schooling Provide Earnings Insurance?

Jacopo Mazza, Hans van Ophem () and Joop Hartog
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Hans van Ophem: University of Amsterdam

No 5531, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an insurance against unpredictability of wages. One conclusion is unequivocally confirmed: uncertainty strongly dominates unobserved heterogeneity.

Keywords: selectivity; wage inequality; wage uncertainty; unobserved heterogeneity; education; replication (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C01 C33 C34 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2011-02
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Published - published as 'Unobserved heterogeneity and risk in wage variance: Does more schooling reduce earnings risk?' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 323 - 338

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