risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed … to attitudes towards risk taking. …

We survey the literature on the Risk Augmented Mincer equation that seeks to estimate the compensation for uncertainty … effect of wage variance and the negative effect of wage skew. We discuss robustness of the findings across specifications … from education. -- Human capital ; earnings function ; risk …

We survey the literature on the Risk Augmented Mincer equation that seeks to estimate the compensation for uncertainty … effect of wage variance and the negative effect of wage skew. We discuss robustness of the findings across specifications …

virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of … heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical models, laments the absence of a good workhorse model and points out the challenges … worth tackling: document ex ante risk that investors face, develop a tractable and malleable analytical model and integrate …

propositions. The results survive various robustness checks on specifications and assumptions. -- entrepreneurship ; self …-employment ; wage-employment ; income distribution ; income risk ; income skew ; income variance ; occupational choice ; labor market …

pivotal role of risk attitudes and the schooling gradient of earnings risk. We use Spanish data to document the gradient and … to estimate individual response to earnings risk in deciding on attending university education, by measuring risk as the … risk aversion, the response may be reversed to positive. …