Morissette, Rene; Ostrovsky, Yuri - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005
income instability varies across segments of the (family-level) earnings distribution. We uncover four key patterns. First …-1995 had, during the 1996-2001 period, much more unstable market income than their counterparts in the top tertile. Fourth … least two-thirds (and up to all) of the differences in instability (measured in terms of proportional income gains …