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Trends in the Transitory Variance of Male Earnings

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Robert A. Moffitt and Peter Gottschalk
Journal of Human Resources, January 2012, 47 (1) 204-236; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.47.1.204
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Abstract

We estimate the trend in the transitory variance of male earnings in the United States using the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1970 to 2004. Using an error components model and simpler but only approximate methods, we find that the transitory variance started to increase in the early 1970s, continued to increase through the mid-1980s, and then remained at this new higher level through the 1990s and beyond. Thus the increase mostly occurred about 30 years ago. Its increase accounts for between 31 and 49 percent of the total rise in cross-sectional variance, depending on the time period.

  • Received August 2008.
  • Accepted March 2011.

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