evidence for compensating wage differentials in Germany so far. Estimating wage regressions with data of the German Socio …-Economic Panel (GSOEP) within individually perceived hazards of work accidents as a risk variable, evidence for compensating wage … differentials in Germany is found even though other effects may partly weaken the existing wage premiums due to risks at work. …

, but with increments being smaller in the European data. Third, we find that wage risk is procyclical in Germany while it … household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First … determining the cyclical properties of labor market risk. -- Life-cycle risk ; uncertainty fluctuations ; business cycle …

-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment Sample (IABS). We then relate these robust measures of earnings risk to the … risk attitudes of individuals working in these occupations. We find that willingness to take risk is positively correlated … with the wage dispersion of an individual's occupation. -- dispersion estimation ; earnings risk ; censoring ; quantile …

This paper reconsiders the wide agreement that females are more risk averse than males providing a leap forward in its …

western Germany is still not fully closed. Admittedly, this could not realistically have been expected. Despite the increase … in life satisfaction in eastern Germany, the east-west divide prevails. Evidence of this can be found in the latest data …, which was conducted for the first time in eastern Germany in 1990—shortly before economic, currency, and social union. Other …

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 … role that human capital plays in this relationship using a rich, worker-level, longitudinal data set from Germany spanning … from 1976 to 2012. Our estimates suggest substantial heterogeneity in labor income risk across workers in different entry …