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The nature of household labor income risk

Pruitt, Seth; Turner, Nicholas - 2018

What is the nature of labor income risk facing households? We answer this question using detailed administrative data on household earnings from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. By analyzing total household labor earnings as well as each member's earnings, we offer several new findings. One,...

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The cyclical behavior of unemployment and wages under information frictions

Morales-Jimenez, Camilo - 2017

higher wages. This increases firms' incentives to post more vacancies, which makes unemployment volatile and sensitive to … aggregate shocks. The model is robust to two major criticisms of existing theories of sluggish wages and volatile unemployment … explains 70% of unemployment volatility …

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Labour income, social transfers and child poverty

Bradbury, Bruce; Jäntti, Markus; Lindahl, Lena - 2017 - Version: July 2017

This paper documents the variation in living standards of the poorest fifth of children in rich (and some middle-income) nations, with a focus on the relative importance and interaction of social transfers (net of taxes) and labour market incomes. Overall, the cross-national variation in the...

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Managers and productivity differences

Guner, Nezih; Parkhomenko, Andrii; Ventura, Gustavo - 2015 - Preliminary

We document that mean earnings of managers grow faster than for non managers over the life cycle for a group of high-income countries. Furthermore, we find that the growth of earnings for managers (relative to non managers) is positively correlated with output per worker across these countries....

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Sources of displaced workers' long-term earnings losses

Lachowska, Marta; Mas, Alexandre; Woodbury, Stephen A. - 2017

panel data from Washington State assembled from 2002-2014 administrative wage and unemployment insurance (UI) records. Three …

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The long-term labor market effects of parental unemployment

Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2020

I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children’s educational attainment and long-run labor market … outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their … results emphasize the intergenerational and long-lasting consequences of parental unemployment. …

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The wage curve and the Phillips curve

Roberts, John M. - 1997

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Wage insurance as a policy option in the United States

Wandner, Stephen A. - 2016

Wage insurance is a program that attempts to help permanently displaced workers transition to employment rapidly, effectively, and equitably. Because displaced workers have been found to suffer substantial earnings losses when they become reemployed, a wage insurance program provides a temporary...

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Health shocks, human capital, and labor market outcomes

Parro, Francisco; Pohl, R. Vincent - 2018

Health, human capital, and labor market outcomes are linked though complex connections that are not fully understood. We explore these links by estimating a flexible yet tractable dynamic model of human capital accumulation in the presence of health shocks using administrative data from Chile....

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Hysteresis via endogenous rigidity in wages and participation

Doniger, Cynthia L.; López-Salido, José David - 2017

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