This paper analyses the relationship between education, gender and earnings in France and Germany. The model chosen …, taking gender-specific sample selectivity into account. The results indicate that the completion of a minimum level of …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of … more likely than men to select the secure job, and these job choices accounted for between 40% and 77% of the gender wage …

market and that this partly translates into the actual gender wage gap through effects on educational choice and the … market compensates higher wage risk with higher wages, this study investigates whether the gender gap in wage expectations …, they expect lower wage risk as measured by the individual-specific dispersion in wage expectations. I decompose the gender …

occupational injuries. It is therefore remarkable that almost all studies analyzing the gender wage gap have disregarded different … occupational injury risks as a potential explanatory variable for observed gender wage differentials. By merging data on … occupational injury risks to German and US panel data on individual workers, this study analyzes gender wage differentials in …

required compensation. In concordance to what theory predicts, we find that the labor market compensates for such foreseeable …