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 …

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 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 …

decomposing disposable income into labour, property and transfer income is essential for understanding and forecasting consumption …. Finally, substantial crosscountry heterogeneity in marginal propensities to consume out of income and wealth components calls …

Many factors inhibiting and facilitating economic growth have been suggested. Will international income data tell which … averaging and classical model selection procedures are sensitive to income differences across datasets. For example, many of the … 1975-1996 growth determinants according to World Bank income data turn out to be irrelevant when using Penn World Table …

"This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and … three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in … various manufacturing sectors. Second, the estimated income risk parameters and data on trade barriers are used to analyze the …

This paper presents stochastic simulation results pertaining to the performance of nominal income targeting, here … existing studies of nominal income growth from a specified target rate. It attempts to improve on existing studies by …. The results suggest that nominal income targeting deserves serious consideration as a monetary policy strategy …