wages given up as an employee. Information on income from self-employment is of inferior quality and this is not just a … that it is not only the location of an income distribution that matters and that dispersion and (a)symmetry should not be …-employment ; wage-employment ; income distribution ; income risk ; income skew ; income variance ; occupational choice ; labor market …

the compensation paid. In particular, because the degree of risk aversion ought to decrease with income, people should … finds supportive evidence: wages rise with occupational earnings variance and decrease with skewness. In order to identify …

ability has a stronger impact on entrepreneurial incomes than on wages. Entrepreneurs and employees benefit from different … sets of specific abilities: Language and clerical abilities have a stronger impact on wages, whereas mathematical, social … generates a higher income, but only for entrepreneurs: This finding supports Lazear's Jack-of-all-Trades theory. …