Risk, Occupational Choice, and Inequality
| dc.contributor.author | Sandén, Klas | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-09-10T11:14:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-09-10T11:14:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007-09-10T11:14:31Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This essay presents a new theory explaining increased wage inequality. A standard endogenous growth model is augmented with occupational choice of highskill workers. Depending on the occupational choice, high-skill workers earn either a certain or uncertain income. Wage inequality, measured by the average wage of high-skill workers divided by the average wage of low-skill workers, can increase or decrease due to an increased supply of high-skill workers. | eng |
| dc.gup.department | Department of Economics | eng |
| dc.gup.origin | Göteborg University, School of Buisness, Economics and Law | eng |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1403-2465 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2077/4754 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | eng |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Working Papers in Economics | eng |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 263 | eng |
| dc.subject | Distribution | eng |
| dc.subject | Wages | eng |
| dc.subject | Cooperatives | eng |
| dc.subject | Technological Change | eng |
| dc.subject | Economic Growth | eng |
| dc.subject | JEL: D33, J31, J54, O32, O41 | eng |
| dc.title | Risk, Occupational Choice, and Inequality | eng |
| dc.type | Text | eng |
| dc.type.svep | report | eng |