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Trends in Intergenerational Income Mobility
Solon, Gary; Lee, Chul-In - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Previous studies of recent U.S. trends in intergenerational income mobility have produced widely varying results, partly because of large sampling errors. By making more efficient use of the available information in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we generate more reliable estimates of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084935
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Controversies about the Rise of American Inequality: A Survey
Gordon, Robert J.; Dew-Becker, Ian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This paper provides a comprehensive survey of seven aspects of rising inequality that are usually discussed separately …: changes in labor's share of income; inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, including labor mobility; skill …-biased technical change; inequality among high incomes; consumption inequality; geographical inequality; and international differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085152
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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government …-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve … along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form with reduced social concern amplifying primal increases in inequality due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395461
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Misperceptions About the Magnitude and Timing of Changes in American Income Inequality
Gordon, Robert J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
The rise in American inequality has been exaggerated both in magnitude and timing. Commentators lament the large gap … timing of the rise of inequality is often misunderstood. By some measures inequality stopped growing after 2000 and by others … inequality has not grown since 1993. This cessation of inequality's secular rise in 2000 is evident from the growth of Census …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005088619
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Sorting Between and Within Industries: A Testable Model of Assortative Matching
Abowd, John M.; Kramarz, Francis; Pérez-Duarte, Sébastien - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We test for sorting of workers between and within industrial sectors in a directed search model with coordination frictions. We fit the model to sector-specific vacancy and output data along with publicly-available statistics that characterize the distribution of worker and employer wage...
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The Glass Ceiling and The Paper Floor: Gender Differences among Top Earners, 1981-2012
Guvenen, Fatih; Song, Jae; Kaplan, Greg - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We analyze changes in the gender structure at the top of the earnings distribution in the United States over the last 30 years using a 10% sample of individual earnings histories from the Social Security Administration. Despite making large inroads, females still constitute a small proportion of...
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The Nature of Countercyclical Income Risk
Guvenen, Fatih; Song, Jae; Ozkan, Serdar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper studies the cyclical nature of individual income risk using a confidential dataset from the U.S. Social Security Administration, which contains (uncapped) earnings histories for millions of individuals. The base sample is a nationally representative panel containing 10 percent of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271386
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An Empirical Investigation of Labor Income Processes
Guvenen, Fatih - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
substantial, explaining between 56 to 75 percent of income inequality at age 55. We also find that profile heterogeneity is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084897
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Equilibrium Wage and Employment Dynamics in a Model of Wage Posting without Commitment
Mortensen, Dale T.; Coles, Melvyn G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
A rich but tractable variant of the Burdett-Mortensen model of wage setting behavior is formulated and a dynamic market equilibrium solution to the model is defined and characterized. In the model, firms cannot commit to wage contracts. Instead, the Markov perfect equilibrium to the wage setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220650
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Gender Gaps across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure
Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked. Based on a canonical supply and demand framework,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277260