This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers. The … analysis proceeds in three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used to estimate time-varying individual income risk … parameters in various manufacturing sectors. The estimated income risk parameters and data on trade barriers are then used to …

This paper develops a framework for the quantitative analysis of individual income dynamics, mobility and welfare …. Individual income is assumed to follow a stochastic process with two (unobserved) components, an i.i.d. component representing … measurement error or transitory income shocks and an AR(1) component representing persistent changes in income. We use a tractable …