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Trade Adjustment : Worker Level Evidence
Autor, David H. - 2014
We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045347
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What Do Data on Millions of U.S. Workers Reveal about Life-Cycle Earnings Risk?
Guvenen, Fatih - 2015
earnings shocks and find important asymmetries: positive shocks to high-income individuals are quite transitory, whereas … negative shocks are very persistent; the opposite is true for low-income individuals. Finally, we use these rich sets of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457753
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How Risky Are Recessions for Top Earners?
Guvenen, Fatih - 2014
How sensitive are the earnings of top earners to business cycles? And, how does the business cycle sensitivity of top earners vary by industry? We use a confidential dataset on earnings histories of US males from the Social Security Administration. On average, individuals in the top 1% of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458799
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Trade Adjustment : Worker Level Evidence
Autor, David H. - 2013
In the past two decades, China's manufacturing exports have grown spectacularly, U.S. imports from China have surged, but U.S. exports to China have increased only modestly. Using representative, longitudinal data on individual earnings by employer, we analyze the effect of exposure to import...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459436
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The Nature of Countercyclical Income Risk
Guvenen, Fatih - 2012
This paper studies the cyclical nature of individual income risk using a confidential dataset from the U.S. Social … individual income growth during recessions into "between-group" and "within-group" components. We begin with the behavior of … within-group shocks. Contrary to past research, we do not find the variance of idiosyncratic income shocks to be …
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