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Earnings instability of job stayers and job changers

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dc.creator Leonardi, Marco
dc.date 2003
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:09:15Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:09:15Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20182
dc.identifier ppn:374930198
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20182
dc.description I use the PSID to decompose the rise in wage inequality into a permanent and a transitory component. I consider separately job stayers and job changers. I find that earnings instability (the variance of the transitory component of earnings) increased much more among job changers than among job stayers. I interpret the evidence in a search and matching model with on-the-job search. The increasing variance of the transitory component of earnings is modeled as a mean-preserving spread of the distribution of productivity shocks. The meanpreserving spread induces on-the-job search on a wider range of productivity values. As a result of increased on-the-job search, the variance of the transitory part of earnings increases among job changers. The direction of the change in the transitory variance across job stayers is ambiguous and depends on their composition between non-seekers and on-the-job seekers who did not find a new job.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation IZA Discussion paper series 946
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject J31
dc.subject J21
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject earnings instability
dc.subject on-the-job search
dc.subject Einkommen
dc.subject Volatilität
dc.subject Arbeitsmobilität
dc.subject Arbeitsplatzsuchmodell
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Theorie
dc.subject Vereinigte Staaten
dc.title Earnings instability of job stayers and job changers
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper
dc.coverage 1970-1992


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