Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33788 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2302
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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