virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of … heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical models, laments the absence of a good workhorse model and points out the challenges … worth tackling: document ex ante risk that investors face, develop a tractable and malleable analytical model and integrate …

This paper reconsiders the wide agreement that females are more risk averse than males providing a leap forward in its …

stereotype of risk averse and less competitive older employees. …

vocational high school. Accounting for risk does little to change this picture. By contrast, vocational high school is associated …Investing in human capital increases lifetime income, but these investments may involve substantial risk. In this paper …

. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses' individual risk …

We use two large Dutch datasets to estimate the Risk Augmented Mincer equation and test for risk compensation in … expected earnings. We replicate earlier findings of a positive premium for risk and a negative premium for skew and add … educations but obtain identical risk compensation. Among recent graduates, women receive higher risk compensation than men …

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