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Joop Hartog
Researcher at University of Amsterdam
Publications - 232
Citations - 8160
Joop Hartog is an academic researcher from University of Amsterdam. The author has contributed to research in topics: Wage & Earnings. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 230 publications receiving 7865 citations. Previous affiliations of Joop Hartog include Erasmus University Rotterdam & Tinbergen Institute.
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Over-education and earnings: Where are we, where should we go?
TL;DR: In this paper, regularities in the incidence of over-and undereducation are outlined, as well as consequences for individual earnings, using empirical studies from five countries spanning an interval of two decades, and the results are confronted with three theoretical models (search, human capital and assignment), but none of these is convincingly related to the specification of the earnings function.
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Linking Measured Risk Aversion to Individual Characteristics
TL;DR: In this article, the Arrow-Pratt measure of risk aversion was found to fall with income and wealth, and women are more risk averse than men, while entrepreneurship is more risk-averse than women.
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Linking Measured Risk Aversion to Individual Characteristics.
TL;DR: In this paper, the Arrow-Pratt measure of risk aversion was found to fall with income and wealth, and women are more risk averse than men, while entrepreneurs are less risk-averse than employees and civil servants more risk-aware than private sector employees.
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Low risk aversion encourages the choice for entrepreneurship: An empirical test of a truism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the negative effect of risk aversion on entrepreneurship selection and concluded that risk attitude is a predictor of the selection of an individual into an entrepreneurial position, but they did not feel enough confident about their measure of risk attitude to conclude anything concerning the causality of this relationship.
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Education, Allocation and Earnings in the Netherlands: Overschooling?
Joop Hartog,Hessel Oosterbeek +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a general specification of the earnings function is derived from allocation models of the labor market, which contains the human capital specification and the job competition specification as special cases, and proves superior to both.