Download or read book Are Earnings Inequality and Mobility Overstated written by Peter T. Gottschalk and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Earnings Inequality and Mobility Trends in the United States written by John M. Abowd and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using earnings data from the U.S. Census Bureau, this paper analyzes the role of the employer in explaining the rise in earnings inequality in the United States. We first establish a consistent frame of analysis appropriate for administrative data used to study earnings inequality. We show that the trends in earnings inequality in the administrative data from the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program are inconsistent with other data sources when we do not correct for the presence of misused SSNs. After this correction to the worker frame, we analyze how the earnings distribution has changed in the last decade. We present a decomposition of the year-to-year changes in the earnings distribution from 2004-2013. Even when simplifying these flows to movements between the bottom 20%, the middle 60%, and the top 20% of the earnings distribution, about 20.5 million workers undergo a transition each year. Another 19.9 million move between employment and non-employment. To understand the role of the firm in these transitions, we estimate a model for log earnings with additive fixed worker and firm effects using all jobs held by eligible workers from 2004-2013. We construct a composite log earnings firm component across all jobs for a worker in a given year and a non-firm component. We also construct a skill-type index. We show that, while the difference between working at a low- or middle-paying firm are relatively small, the gains from working at a top-paying firm are large. Specifically, the benefits of working for a high-paying firm are not only realized today, through higher earnings paid to the worker, but also persist through an increase in the probability of upward mobility. High-paying firms facilitate moving workers to the top of the earnings distribution and keeping them there.
Download or read book Technical Change Earnings Inequality and Social Mobility written by Thorsten Vogel and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given that a society's distribution of labor earnings reflects the prevailing inequality in economic well-being within that society, it deserves further inquiry. There are two major strands in the literature that deals with the causes for and the consequences of the unequal distribution of labor earnings. On the one hand, there is the-recently burgeoning-literature in economics on the dispersion of labor earnings that can be observed at any given point in time which shall be referred to as intragenerational inequality. On the other hand, both sociologists and economists have been concerned for a long time with the persistence of inequality in earnings among members of different families, classes, castes, or income groups. The possible switching of positions in the earnings distribution is usually referred to as intergenerational social mobility. The latter literature is motivated by the belief that the assessment of inequality at a given point in time critically depends on the degree of intergenerational social mobility. Inequality appears the more socially acceptable, the higher are the chances for individuals to rise and to fall in the income ladder. This thesis contributes to the understanding of both aspects of earnings inequality-inequality in earnings both within and between families. This introductory chapter aims at giving a broad overview over the main conclusions of both lines of research and shows how the contributions of the present thesis, presented in the chapters 2-4, fit into this literature.
Download or read book Earnings Mobility and Measurement Error written by Francisca Antman and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The degree of mobility in incomes is often seen as an important measure of the equality of opportunity in a society and of the flexibility and freedom of its labor market. But estimation of mobility using panel data is biased by the presence of measurement error and non-random attrition from the panel. This paper shows that dynamic pseudo-panel methods can be used to consistently estimate measures of absolute and conditional mobility in the presence of non-classical measurement errors. These methods are applied to data on earnings from a Mexican quarterly rotating panel. Absolute mobility in earnings is found to be very low in Mexico, suggesting that the high level of inequality found in the cross-section will persist over time. However, the paper finds conditional mobility to be high, so that households are able to recover quickly from earnings shocks. These findings suggest a role for policies which address underlying inequalities in earnings opportunities.
Download or read book Earnings Inequality written by Robert H. Haveman and published by A E I Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses changes in men's earnings from the mid-1970s to 1991.
Download or read book Earnings Mobility in the United States written by Bhashkar Mazumder and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trends in Earnings Inequality and Earnings Mobility 1977 1997 written by Abigail McKnight and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rise in Lifetime Earnings Inequality Among Men written by Stephanie Aaronson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trends in Earnings Inequality Earnings Mobility 1977 1999 sic written by Abigail McKnight and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trends in Earnings Inequality and Earnings Monbility 1977 1999 written by Abigail McKnight and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Inequality Paradox written by James Allen Auerbach and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises 14 papers which examine the growth in income disparity that has taken place in the United States over the last two decades.
Download or read book How High Can You Climb written by Athiphat Muthitacharoen and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates inequality and intragenerational economic mobility in a developing country with large inequality. Understanding economic mobility is important because it shapes our perception of inequality. Despite its significance, evidence on intragenerational mobility, especially that based on administrative data, is relatively limited in developing countries. Using Thailand's tax return data, we study the evolution of earnings inequality, estimate medium-term earnings mobility, and examine the heterogeneity of mobility across age, gender and employment arrangement. Our analysis yields three main findings. First, annual earnings inequality rises during the 2009-2018 period. We find that the inequality is largely permanent, and its increase is primarily driven by top-earnings workers. Second, we find that medium-term mobility follows a U-shaped pattern across the earnings distribution, with extremely high persistence at the top. Our suggestive comparison indicates that Thailand's earnings mobility is among the lowest in the pool of evidence from both developed and developing countries. Third, there is a considerable heterogeneity in mobility regarding employment arrangement. Workers in less-formal jobs have much lower upward mobility than those in more-formal employment. Our findings also indicate significant heterogeneity in mobility with respect to gender and age. These findings highlight the importance of ensuring that any increase in inequality caused by the Covid-19 crisis does not become permanent, as well as improving access to opportunities for vulnerable workers.
Download or read book Changes in earnings inequality and mobility in Great Britain 1978 9 2005 6 written by Richard Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Earnings Inequality and Earnings Mobility in the U S written by Mary Daly and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Earnings Mobility in the US written by Bhashkar Mazumder and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Earnings Mobility and Inequality written by Paul Gregg and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper we propose an integrated framework for the analysis of earnings inequality and mobility, which enables the analysis of the distributional dimension of inequality reduction from mobility, an assessment of the economic drivers of mobility and a sense of which drivers are equalising and dis-equalising. In particular we are able to capture the extent to which life-cycle characteristics, key life events, job related characteristics, and changes in working time affect overall mobility and inequality. The framework also offers a bounded approach to isolating the underlying inequality reduction resulting from mobility from measurement error which can otherwise lead to a substantial upward bias.
Download or read book Firms and the Decline in Earnings Inequality in Brazil written by Jorge Alvarez and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We document a large decrease in earnings inequality in Brazil between 1996 and 2012. Using administrative linked employer-employee data, we fit high-dimensional worker and firm fixed effects models to understand the sources of this decrease. Firm effects account for 40 percent of the total decrease and worker effects for 29 percent. Changes in observable worker and firm characteristics contributed little to these trends. Instead, the decrease is primarily due to a compression of returns to these characteristics, particularly a declining firm productivity pay premium. Our results shed light on potential drivers of earnings inequality dynamics.
