The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's supervision group follows current and emerging risk trends on an on-going basis …. This Risk Perspectives newsletter is designed to highlight a few current risk topics and some potential risk topics on the … list of the current or potential risk topics and should not be relied upon as such. We encourage each of our supervised …

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 …

unemployment risk and low wages. Essentially, the labor market offers its own version of insurance. …This paper argues that moderate unemployment insurance not only reduces the uncertainty faced by risk-averse workers … without unemployment insurance, because the labor market endogenously creates jobs that provide risk-averse workers with low …