Title: Is there a risk-return trade-off across occupations?
Description: "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 riskreturn trade-off across occupations in the Spanish labour market. These results are in conformity with preferences of risk-averse individuals with decreasing absolute risk aversion"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Subjects: Effect of education on, Labor market, Occupations, Statistics, Wages
Places: Spain