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 …

, but with increments being smaller in the European data. Third, we find that wage risk is procyclical in Germany while it … determining the cyclical properties of labor market risk. -- Life-cycle risk ; uncertainty fluctuations ; business cycle …

policy relevant outcomes and policy effects, that of the wage premia for fatal injury risk. Estimates of the overall hedonic …

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 …

This chapter reviews the economics literature on immigrant-native differentials in occupational risk. It begins by … advanced economies, but not all. Finally, most, but not all, immigrants appear to earn risk premiums similar to natives for …

substantial. The second result is that true wage risk is almost three times as large as the wage variance observed after job … mobility, which is what other papers in the literature have called wage risk. This suggests a very different picture of the …

Microeconomic theory predicts that under certain regularity conditions higher idiosyncratic risk increases the … propensity to insure against independent marketable risks. We apply these predictions to the specific case of labor income risk … and car insurance using data from the UK. The main empirical results are: - higher labor income risk induces a higher …