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Lillard, Lee A. - 1976

This paper proposes an econometric methodology to deal with life cycle earnings and mobility among discrete earnings classes. First, we use panel data on male log earnings to estimate an earnings function with permanent and serially correlated transitory components due to both measured and...

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Employer-to-Employer Flows in the United States : Estimates Using Linked Employer-Employee Data

Bjelland, Melissa - 2008

We use administrative data linking workers and firms to study employer-to-employer flows. After discussing how to identify such flows in quarterly data, we investigate their basic empirical patterns. We find that the pace of employer-to-employer flows is high, representing about 4 percent of...

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A Tale of Two Labor Markets : Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Britain and the U.S. Since 1850

Long, Jason - 2005

The U.S. both tolerates more inequality than Europe and believes its economic mobility is greater than Europe's. These attitudes and beliefs help account for differences in the magnitude of redistribution through taxation and social welfare spending. In fact, the U.S. and Europe had roughly...

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Time on the Ladder : Career Mobility in Agriculture, 1890-1938

Alston, Lee J. - 2005

We explore the dynamics of the agricultural ladder (the progression from laborer to cropper to renter) in the U.S. before 1940 using individual-level data from a survey of farmers conducted in 1938 in Jefferson County, Arkansas. Using information on each individual's complete career history...

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Wage Mobility in the United States

Buchinsky, Moshe - 1996

This paper examines the mobility of individuals through the wage and earnings distributions. This is of extreme importance since mobility has a direct implication for the way one views the vast changes in wage and earnings inequality in the United States over the last few decades. The measures...

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Labor Earnings Mobility and Inequality in the United States and Germany During the Growth Years of the 1980s

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 1997

prime age men and women in the United States and Germany during the growth years of the 1980s. Despite major differences in …-specific differences among men, while in Germany random shocks are found to persist longer for men. Women in Germany and the United States …

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Consolidating the Evidence on Income Mobility in the Western States of Germany and the U.S. from 1984-2006

Bayaz-Ozturk, Gulgun - 2012

economic mobility. Using standard measures of mobility (with panel data for the western states of Germany and the U.S.) over … the entire period 1984-2006, we find the conventional result that income mobility is greater in Germany. But when we cut … significantly over the years immediately following reunification in Germany but not in the U.S …

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Urban Mobility and the Experienced Isolation of Students and Adults

Cook, Cody; Currier, Lindsey; Glaeser, Edward L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Do urban children live more segregated lives than urban adults? Using cellphone location data and following the 'experienced isolation' methodology of Athey et al. (2021), we compare the isolation of students over the age of 16--who we identify based on their time spent at a high school--and...

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The Geography of Job Creation and Job Destruction

Kuhn, Moritz; Manovskii, Iourii; Qiu, Xincheng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job …

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Top Executives, Turnover and Firm Performance in Germany

Kaplan, Steven N. - 1993

performance in the largest companies in Germany in the 1980s. The management board turns over slowly -- at a rate of 10% per year … -- implying that top executives in Germany have longer tenures than their counterparts in the U.S. and Japan. Turnover of the …

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