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 …