This paper examines the links between gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk and the gender pay gap …. Consistent with the literature on the socio-economic determinants of attitudes towards economic risk, it shows that females are … much more risk averse than males. It then extends this research to show that workers with more favorable attitudes towards …

We use two large Dutch datasets to estimate the Risk Augmented Mincer equation and test for risk compensation in … expected earnings. We replicate earlier findings of a positive premium for risk and a negative premium for skew and add … educations but obtain identical risk compensation. Among recent graduates, women receive higher risk compensation than men …

variance of exam grades is higher and that starting wages are lower if the skew is higher: employers shift quality risk to new … wages to reflect this. Formal analysis supports the intuition. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of … education as an indicator of the heterogeneity that employers face. We find solid evidence that starting wages are lower if the …

We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The …

lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest …

The purpose of this study is to estimate whether sexual activity is associated with wages, and also to estimate … potential interactions between individuals' characteristics, wages and sexual activity. The central hypothesis behind this …'s set of productive traits that affect wages. Using two stage estimations we examine the relationship between adult sexual …

part of the workers in the sector, the unions are worried about low wages and poor working conditions in the sector. This … workers received between 16 and 18 percent lower wages in 2008. This development appears partly to be explained by a lower …

impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations … likelihood of native workers. Impacts on wages are positive for likely unauthorized women suggesting a large labor supply … reduction. For native-born workers, hourly wages also increase and provide some evidence of substitutability of unauthorized …