We use data from Spain to test for an effect of earnings risk and skewness on individual wages. We carry out separate … estimation for men, women, public and private sector employees. In accordance with previous evidence for the US we show the … existence of a risk-return trade-off across occupations in the Spanish labour market. These results are in conformity with …

We survey the literature on estimating risk preferences using field data. We concentrate our attention on studies in … which risk preferences are the focal object and estimating their structure is the core enterprise. We review a number of … models of risk preferences — including both expected utility (EU) theory and non-EU models — that have been estimated using …