frictions that allows us to distinguish between different sources of risk and to estimate their effects. The sources of risk are …. Estimates of productivity risk, once we control for employment risk and for individual labour supply choices, are substantially … lower than estimates that attribute all wage variation to productivity risk. Increases in productivity risk impose a …

-employment ; wage-employment ; income distribution ; income risk ; income skew ; income variance ; occupational choice ; labor market …

and price of unsecured debt. -- household debt portfolios ; housing ; collateral ; bankruptcy ; commitment ; income risk …

consumption-saving model with labor income risk and incomplete markets to relate income dynamics to consumption and welfare, and …) welfare-neutral. A smaller part of measured income mobility is due to either welfare-reducing income risk or welfare … welfare evaluation. -- income mobility ; labor market risk ; social welfare …

risk differ between agents and the econometrician. Our tests are based on panel data elicited yearly from British … ; income risk ; limited information variances …

This paper investigates whether risk preferences explain how individuals are sorted into occupations with different … willingness to take risks whose behavioral relevance has been validated in previous work. As a measure of earnings risk, we use … relating earnings risk to the measure of individual risk preference, our evidence shows that individuals with low willingness …

In this paper, we empirically assess the causal relationship between trade and individual income risk and study the … from 1976 to 2012. Our estimates suggest substantial heterogeneity in labor income risk across workers in different entry … exports (per worker) are strongly and causally related to income risk: Imports increase risk and exports decrease risk, and …