ECHP. Understanding wage mobility and its link with the evolution of cross-sectional earnings inequality is important from … there common trends in earnings inequality and mobility across countries? Equally weighted minimum distance methods are used …-sectional inequality was accompanied by an increase in mobility, and therefore a decrease in the importance of the permanent component …

There is by now a vast number of studies which document a sharp increase in cross-sectional wage inequality during the … 2000s. It is often assumed that this inequality is of a permanent nature which in turn is used as an argument calling for … inequality during the 2000s. Applying covariance structure models, we calculate the fraction of permanent and transitory wage and …

. All countries recording an increase in cross-sectional inequality recorded also a decrease in short-term mobility. Among … countries where inequality decreased, short-term mobility increased in Denmark, Spain, Ireland and UK, and decreased in Belgium … question is answered by exploring short and long-term wage mobility for males across 14 EU countries between 1994 and 2001 …

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …

This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables …, composition changes explain a large part of the increase in wage inequality among full-time workers. The composition effects are …

break. Using the correction, the paper confirms that the rise in wage inequality among full-time workers in West Germany …

Does over-education assist or hinder occupational advancement? Career mobility theory hypothesizes that over …. This paper re-tests career mobility theory directly using a rich Australian longitudinal data set. A dynamic random effects … probit model is employed to examine upward occupational mobility, considering two-digit occupational rank advancement and …

. Therefore, wage mobility does not balance recent increases in cross-sectional wage inequality. We apply RIF (recentered …This article studies the long run patterns and explanations of wage mobility as a characteristic of regional labor … markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage …