variance of exam grades is higher and that starting wages are lower if the skew is higher: employers shift quality risk to new …

if the variance of exam grades is higher and higher if the skew is higher: employers shift the cost of productivity risk … to new hires, but pay for the opportunity to catch a really good worker. Estimating the extent of risk cost sharing …

The relationship between risk in the environment, risk aversion and inequality aversion is not well understood … with varying degrees of risk (“endowment risk”) influence individual behavior. We derive theoretical predictions for these … games using utility functions that capture additively separable constant relative risk aversion and inequity aversion. We …