parametric and non-parametric measures to capture expected wage risk. These wage risk measures are unfettered by heterogeneity … which handicapped the use of actual market wage dispersion as risk measure in earlier studies. Students in our sample … anticipate that the market provides compensation for risk, as has been established with Risk Augmented Mincer earnings equations …

variance of exam grades is higher and that starting wages are lower if the skew is higher: employers shift quality risk to new …

model with idiosyncratic labor income risk. In our model economy, even a moderate earnings testing reduces individuals …

uncertainty ; wage shocks ; risk sharing ; wage insurance …

The magnitude of and heterogeneity in systematic earnings risk has important implications for various theories in macro …, labor, and financial economics. Using administrative data, we document how the aggregate risk exposure of individual … earnings to GDP and stock returns varies across gender, age, the worker's earnings level, and industry. Aggregate risk exposure …

Assessing the importance of uninsurable wage risk for individual financial choices faces two challenges. First, the … identification of the marginal effect requires a measure of at least one component of risk that cannot be diversified or avoided …. Moreover, measures of uninsurable wage risk must vary over time to eliminate unobserved heterogeneity. Second, evaluating the …