This paper documents earnings dynamics over the life-cycle and income level using a large administrative database from … normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes are driven equally by hours and wages which is consistent with … German tax records. I find that labor earnings display important deviations from the typical assumptions of linearity and …

the reduced earnings, work hours, and wages of these displaced workers can be attributed to factors specific to pre- and … than half of long-term earnings losses and 83 percent of lower long-term hourly wages. …We estimate the earnings losses of a cohort of workers displaced during the Great Recession and decompose those long …