There is a large literature on earnings and income volatility in labor economics, household finance, and macroeconomics …. One strand of that literature has studied whether individual earnings volatility has risen or fallen in the U.S. over the … data. Using common specifications, measures of volatility, and other treatments of the data, four of the six data series …

: competition, business environment, learning spillovers and human capital. Collectively, these drivers account for about a third of …

Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume … jobs. This form of wage rigidity does not affect job creation and thus cannot explain the unemployment volatility puzzle …

vanished, (ii) the relative volatility of employment has risen, and (iii) the relative (and absolute) volatility of the real … observed decline in output volatility. -- labor hoarding ; labor market frictions ; wage rigidities ; effort choice …

Bubbles are recurrent events, which contribute to both macroeconomic and employment volatility. We introduce stochastic …

divergence in growth and volatility. The results have important implications for the appropriate choice of aggregate wage series …

business cycle volatility, hinting at a stabilizing effect of public employment, while public wages correlate weakly and … positively with business cycle volatility, hinting at a destabilizing effect of public wages. To explain these relationships, we …