QUESTION 7 The wage-risk analysis is based on the notion that the wage premium is greater than the risk premium O that only young workers take on additional risk and require a wage premium the risk premium is always greater than the wage premium that to take additional risks, workers need to get paid extra QUESTION 8 The difference between risk and uncertainty is that uncertainty is can only assigned probabilities to the most likely outcomes risk has well-defined probabilities of each outcome uncertainty can assigned probabilities to each possible outcome O risk is the same as ignorance

QUESTION 7 The wage-risk analysis is based on the notion that the wage premium is greater than the risk premium O that only young workers take on additional risk and require a wage premium the risk premium is always greater than the wage premium that to take additional risks, workers need to get paid extra QUESTION 8 The difference between risk and uncertainty is that uncertainty is can only assigned probabilities to the most likely outcomes risk has well-defined probabilities of each outcome uncertainty can assigned probabilities to each possible outcome O risk is the same as ignorance

Microeconomic Theory

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Chapter2: Mathematics For Microeconomics

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