This paper examines optimal job choices when jobs differ in the rate at which they reveal information about workers’ skills. We then analyze how the optimal level of experimentation changes over a worker’s career and characterize job transitions and wage growth over the life-cycle. Using the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) merged with the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY...

BACKGROUND Many people ageing with intellectual disabilities (ID) age in place in group homes. Participation is a central concept in support and service to people with ID, but age is often a determining factor for participation among this group. Choice and control are dimensions of participation. AIM The aim of this article is to explore how choice and control in the everyday life of people a...

Previous research has identified non-diversifiable risk and a preference for “being one’s own boss” as key determinants of participation in self-employment. Using a simple model of occupational choice, I show how both factors can cause efficiency losses in a free market economy, and how linear differential occupational taxation can improve on the market outcome. A simulation exercise calibrated...

All us We estimate a dynamic life cycle model of labor supply, fertility, and savings, incorporating occupational choices, with specific wage paths and skill atrophy that vary over the career. This allows us to understand the trade-off between occupational choice and desired fertility, as well as sorting both into the labormarket and across occupations. We quantify the life cycle career costs a...

Regret is a universal emotion that can be experienced throughout the course of life, with varying degrees consequence. However, studies have rarely explored regret as it pertains to one's occupational choice. Through an inductive qualitative study drawing on 51 career-based interviews, we develop model reveals how individuals experience and deal this over time. This shows episodic in nature, in...

Survey data were collected from a sample of 298 occupational therapy department directors on (a) department demographics; (b) availability of micro- or macrocomputers; (c) types of hardware, software, and peripheral devices used; (d) major purposes and functions for computers; and (e) major factors regarding choice of computers and equipment or factors most influential in the nonuse of computer...

This paper presents extensive empirical testing of the hypothesis that greater post-schooling earnings risk requires higher expected returns. Expanding on this notion, on the basis of utility theory, we predict that workers not only care about risk but also about the skewness in the distribution of the compensation paid: workers exhibit risk aversion and skewness affection. To test these hypoth...