Is There a Risk-Return Trade-Off Across Occupations? Evidence from Spain

26 Pages Posted: 22 Oct 2004

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Luís Díaz-Serrano

National University of Ireland, Maynooth; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Joop Hartog

University of Amsterdam - Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB); Tinbergen Institute; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Date Written: October 2004

Abstract

We use data from Spain to test for an effect of earnings risk and skewness on individual wages. We carry out separate estimation for men, women, public and private sector employees. In accordance with previous evidence for the US we show the existence of a risk-return trade-off across occupations in the Spanish labour market. These results are in conformity with preferences of risk-averse individuals with decreasing absolute risk aversion.

Keywords: risk-aversion, skewness affection, occupational choices, compensating wage differentials

JEL Classification: J3, D8

Suggested Citation

Díaz-Serrano, Luís and Hartog, Joop, Is There a Risk-Return Trade-Off Across Occupations? Evidence from Spain (October 2004). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=609061 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.609061

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