Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/52114 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5393
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines the links between gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk and the gender pay gap. Consistent with the literature on the socio-economic determinants of attitudes towards economic risk, it shows that females are much more risk averse than males. It then extends this research to show that workers with more favorable attitudes towards risk are associated with higher earnings, and that gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk can account for a small, though important, part of the standardized gender pay gap.
Subjects: 
wages
gender
risk
wage gap
JEL: 
J31
J71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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