This paper presents a cross-sectional analysis of earnings patterns for 1982-92. resullts generally agree with others' findings based on a survey of Consumer Fianance data, and indicate a general increase in earnings inequality over the time due to cyclical effects as well as to more structural...

This paper examines how individuals' earnings mobility varies with the time period considered and starting position in the earnings distribution, as well as by age and sex. Three measures are used in this analysis: conditional transition matrices between earnings quintiles, the total number of...

This paper examines how individuals' earnings mobility varies with the length of the interval considered, the spacific time period covered, the starting point in the earnings distribution, and age and sex.