Accident risk, gender, family status and occupational choice in the UK
By: by Suzanne Grazier, Peter J. Sloane
Contributors: Sloane, Peter J.
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2302; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2302
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Subjects: Vocational interests; Vocational guidance; Risk
Description: "Many studies show that women are more risk averse than men. In this paper, following DeLeire and Levy (2004) for the US, we use family structure as a proxy for the degree of risk aversion to test the proposition that those with strong aversion to risk will make occupational choices biased towards safer jobs. In line with DeLeire and Levy we find that women are more risk averse than men and those married with children are more risk averse than those without. However, the effect on the degree of gender segregation is much smaller than for the US"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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