Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/145677 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2016: Demographischer Wandel - Session: Occupational Choice and Job Mobility: Empirical Evidence No. D18-V3
Publisher: 
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel und Hamburg
Abstract: 
In this paper, we investigate the relationship between individuals' willingness to take risk and job mobility during the early career. Job change is a risky decision since it involves substantial costs without entirely foreseeing the benefits at the time the decision is made. We incorporate risk preferences as an additional parameter influencing the individual job change behaviour in an on-the-job search model accounting for nonwage job characteristics. Empirically, we show that more risk-averse individuals voluntarily change their jobs less often compared to more risk-tolerant individuals. In addition, since risk-averse individuals demand higher compensation for the risk associated with uncertain nonwage job characteristics, we find that their job changes are associated with higher wage gains. However, more risk-averse individuals do not obtain higher overall wage growth as a result of the early career compared to more risk-tolerant individuals.
JEL: 
D81
J31
J62
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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