little evidence about whether having more education causes employees to experience lower earnings volatility or shelters them … 1972 increase in compulsory schooling on earnings volatility over the life cycle. Our estimates suggest that men exposed to … evidence that education affects earnings volatility of older men …

and flows via non-participation. Close to two-thirds of the volatility of unemployment in the UK over this period can be …

We provide new evidence about earnings and labour market volatility in Britain over the period 1992-2008, and for women … as well as men. (Most research about volatility refers to earnings volatility for US men.) We show that earnings … volatility declined slightly for both men and women over the period but the changes are not statistically significant. When we …

tests the hypotheses derived by exploiting the introduction of a "fresh start" policy in Germany in 1999 as a natural …

This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility … vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor productivity is roughly twice as large as in the United States. We derive and …