Cross-sectional earnings risk and occupational sorting: The role of risk attitudes

Labour Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 926-937

  Bonin, Holger ^a   Dohmen, Thomas ^a   Falk, Armin ^a   Huffman, David ^a   Sunde, Uwe ^a  

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Author keywords

Earnings risk; Occupational choice; Risk preferences; SOEP; Sorting

Indexed keywords

EID: 35449003723     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2007.06.007     Document Type: Article

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