recorded earnings toidentify the impact of transitory income on current reporting of earnings. Prior earningsvolatility is an …I report the measurement error in self-reported earnings for a developing country.Administrative data from the … find that the error inannual self-reported earnings is centered on zero but less efficient than results from the US …

– highly-educated immigrantsfrom mainland China experienced significant employment and earnings gains during the1990s. Chinese … immigrants who arrived in the U.S in time to benefit from the measures alsohad higher relative earnings in 2000 than Chinese …

wages given up as an employee.Information on income from self-employment is of inferior quality and this is not just … it is not only the location of an income distribution thatmatters and that dispersion and (a)symmetry should not be …

) data. By examining labor markettransitions, earnings levels, and earnings growth and their correlates using a recent … interms of the levels of unemployment. In terms of earnings, the picture is reversed, withfemales being worse off in terms of … the levels of earnings, while they have experiencedsomewhat smaller earnings decreases than males (though, owing to the …

We estimate the responses of gross labor earnings with respect to marginal and average netof-tax rates in France over … individuals who earn less than twice theminimum wage. Our estimate for the elasticity of gross labor earnings with respect to … themarginal net-of-income-tax rate is around 0.2, while we find no response to the marginal netof-payroll-tax rate. The elasticity …

This paper provides a longitudinal perspective on changes in Spanish male earnings inequality for the period 1993 …-2000, by decomposing the earnings covariance structure into its permanent and transitory parts. According to the Spanish sample … of the European Community Household Panel, cross-sectional earnings inequality of male full-time employees falls over the …