Risk attitude and wage growth: replicating Shaw (1996)

Santiago Budria Rodriguez (), Luis Diaz-Serrano (), Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Joop Hartog ()

Empirical Economics, 2013, vol. 44, issue 2, 1004 pages

Abstract: We replicate Shaw (J Labor Econ 14(4):626–653, 1996 ) who found that individual wage growth is higher for individuals with greater preference for risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain, and Italy, we find evidence that risk attitudes are relevant but support is mixed at best for the original specifications. Copyright The Author(s) 2013

Keywords: Wage growth; Risk; Post-school investment; J24; J30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/s00181-012-0549-5

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