Badel, Alejandro; Daly, Moira; Huggett, Mark; Nybom, Martin - 2017
We provide a common set of life-cycle earnings statistics using administrative data from the United States, Canada …, Denmark and Sweden. Three qualitative patterns are common across countries: (1) the earnings distribution above the median … fans out with age, (2) the extreme right tail of the earnings distribution becomes thicker with age, and (3) the growth …