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JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS
Volume 44, Issue 1, Pages 182-200Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2015.10.002
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Risk attitudes; Great Recession; Time variation; Labor market outcomes; Germany; Ukraine
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We use the panel data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and of the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to investigate whether risk attitudes have primary (exogenous) determinants that are valid in different stages of economic development and in a different structural context, comparing a mature capitalist economy and a transition economy. We then analyze the stability of the risk measures over time. Between 2007 and 2012 we have the Great Recession, which had a mild impact in the German labor market while it had a more profound impact on the Ukrainian labor market. This enables us to investigate whether and how the crisis impacted on the risk attitudes in the two countries. By focusing on self-employment we also investigate whether the reduced willingness to take risks as a consequence of the Great Recession affects labor market dynamics and outcomes. Journal of Comparative Economics 44 (1) (2016) 182-200. University of Bonn, Maastricht University, IZA and DIW, Berlin; University of Bologna, IZA and DIW, Berlin; International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University. (C) 2015 Association for Comparative Economic Studies. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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