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The life-cycle and the business-cycle of wage risk : a cross-country comparison
Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - 2009
, we find that household characteristics explain about 25% of the dispersion in wages within an age group in all three … countries. Second, the cross-sectional variance of wages is almost linearly increasing in household age in all three countries …
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A test of the "Krugman hypothesis" for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are related to negative relative demand shocks against the...
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What do data on millions of US workers reveal about life-cycle earnings risk?
Guvenen, Fatih; Karahan, Fatih; Ozkan, Serdar; Song, Jae - 2015
We study the evolution of individual labor earnings over the life cycle, using a large panel data set of earnings histories drawn from U.S. administrative records. Using fully nonparametric methods, our analysis reaches two broad conclusions. First, earnings shocks display substantial deviations...
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What Do Data on Millions of U.S. Workers Reveal About Life-Cycle Earnings Dynamics?
Guvenen, Fatih - 2019
, such as negative skewness and very high kurtosis. Further, the extent of these nonnormalities varies significantly with age … and earnings level, peaking around age 50 and between the 70th and 90th percentiles of the earnings distribution. Second … probability that varies with age and earnings …
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What Do Data on Millions of U.S. Workers Reveal About Life-Cycle Earnings Risk?
Guvenen, Fatih - 2015
We study the evolution of individual labor earnings over the life cycle, using a large panel data set of earnings histories drawn from U.S. administrative records. Using fully nonparametric methods, our analysis reaches two broad conclusions. First, earnings shocks display substantial deviations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017427
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Atypical work and employment continuity
Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher James - 2009
Atypical employment arrangements such as agency temporary work and contracting have long been criticized as offering more precarious and unstable work than regular employment. Using data from two datasets - the CAEAS and the NLSY79 we determine whether workers who take such jobs rather than...
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Atypical work : who gets it, and where does it lead? ; some U.S. evidence using the NLSY79
Addison, John T.; Cotti, Chad; Surfield, Christopher James - 2009
Atypical work arrangements have long been criticized as offering more precarious and lower paid work than regular open-ended employment. In an important paper, Booth et al. (2002) were among the first to recognize that notwithstanding their potential deficiencies, such jobs also functioned as a...
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Job ladders and earnings of displaced workers
Krolikowski, Pawel - 2015
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Job ladders and earnings of displaced workers
Krolikowski, Pawel - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 9 (2017) 2, pp. 1-31
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Long-run wage and earnings losses of displaced workers
White, Roger - In: Applied economics 42 (2010) 13/15, pp. 1845-1856
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