Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35459 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4124
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We replicate Shaw (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 mixed support for the earlier results. We present and estimate a new model and find that in particular the wage level is sensitive to attitudes towards risk taking.
Subjects: 
Wage growth
risk
post-school investment
JEL: 
J24
J30
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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