our model with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) shows that both permanent wage and hours shocks play an important … Income Dynamics (PSID) für die USA zeigen, dass sowohl Lohn- als auch Stundenshocks eine wichtige Rolle für die Erklärung der …

Top income inequality in the United States has increased considerably within occupations. This phenomenon has led to a … search for a common explanation. We instead develop a theory where increases in income inequality originating within a few … provides non-divisible services to consumers, with physicians our prime example. Examining local income inequality across U …

We review research on the dynamics and distribution of individual earnings and family income. We start with univariate … earnings models, which dominate the literature and are often used as the exogenous component of family income in structural … family income that integrate individual earnings, marriage (accounting for marital sorting), and earnings of a spouse (if …

gesamte Varianz der Einkommen in kurzfristige Unsicherheit (transitorische Varianz) und langfristige Einkommensungleichheit … Geburtskohorten (1935 – 1974). Die Analyse basiert auf sozialversicherungspflichtigen Einkommen, die im primären Erwerbsalter zwischen …

While recently more and more research has focused on the aggregate response of consumption to income shocks, little is … known about how this response differs for households at different ends of the income distribution. This paper investigates … how consumption reacts to transitory and permanent shocks to disposable income for households with an income above or …

Transitory and permanent shocks to income have been shown to be important determinants of household consumption. This … income between demographic groups since the 1980s. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics the educational … explain on average a larger part of the income variance of educated households whereas transitory shocks are relatively more …

We estimate an income process that is consistent with key facts on individual income risk and its variation over the … business cycle. In particular, the estimated process generates income fluctuations that display (i) flat and acyclical variance … over the life cycle, all consistent with the US data. Furthermore, the income process captures the predictable nature of …

Using detailed micro-data, this paper documents that households with lower income risk (and higher income levels …) exhibit a higher Marginal Propensity to Consume (MPC) in response to transitory income shocks, all else being equal. This … designed to account for the empirically observed negative correlation between income levels and income risk. This interaction …