Numerous studies, in particular for the US, have shown that individuals in occupations with high injury risk are … compensated for that risk by corresponding bonus payments. At the same time, male workers are overrepresented in the most … Germany and the US considering fatal occupational injury risk. The Blinder-Oaxaca method for tobit models is used to decompose …

-Economic Panel (GSOEP) within individually perceived hazards of work accidents as a risk variable, evidence for compensating wage …

-Economic Panel (GSOEP) within individually perceived hazards of work accidents as a risk variable, evidence for compensating wage …

, we find that household characteristics explain about 25% of the dispersion in wages within an age group in all three … countries. Second, the cross-sectional variance of wages is almost linearly increasing in household age in all three countries …, but with increments being smaller in the European data. Third, we find that wage risk is procyclical in Germany while it …

normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes are driven equally by hours and wages which is consistent with …

deviation of wages. Following the procedure proposed by Bonin (2007), this earnings risk measure is used as dependent variable …This study analyzes the relationship of individual risk attitudes and occupational sorting with respect to occupational … earnings risk. By using the German Mikrozensus, a precise measure for earnings risk is computed as the occupation-wide standard …