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In this paper, we construct a parsimonious overlapping-generations model of human capital accumulation and study its quantitative implications for the evolution of the U.S. wage distribution from 1970 to 2000. A key feature of the model is that individuals differ in their ability to accumulate...
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response functions of earnings shocks and find important asymmetries: Positive shocks to high-income individuals are quite … transitory, whereas negative shocks are very persistent; the opposite is true for low-income individuals. Finally, we use these …
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