Earnings, consumption and life cycle choices

C Meghir, L Pistaferri - Handbook of labor economics, 2011 - Elsevier
We discuss recent developments in the literature that studies how the dynamics of earnings
and wages affect consumption choices over the life cycle. We start by analyzing the …

Collective bargaining and the evolution of wage inequality in Italy

F Devicienti, B Fanfani, A Maida - British Journal of Industrial …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Italian male wage inequality has increased at a relatively fast pace from the mid‐1980s until
the early 2000s, while it has been persistently flat since then. We analyse this trend, focusing …

Labor earnings dynamics in a developing economy with a large informal sector

DBP Gomes, FS Iachan, C Santos - Journal of Economic Dynamics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
We study labor earnings dynamics in a developing economy with a large informal sector. We
use nationally representative Brazilian panel data that cover both formal and informal …

Inequality and crime: separating the effects of permanent and transitory income

M Dahlberg, M Gustavsson - Oxford Bulletin of Economics and …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total
earnings. However, it is quite likely that it is the changes in permanent rather than in …

Permanent inequality versus earnings instability and transmission of income shocks to consumption expenditure in India

AK Mishra, A Gupta, V Bhardwaj - The Quarterly Review of Economics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The economic inequality in India has increased in the past years, and this increase is related
to the changes in the covariance structure. Using the CMIE data for the 18 waves, this paper …

Post-schooling human capital investments and the life cycle of earnings

T Magnac, N Pistolesi, S Roux - Journal of Political Economy, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
We propose an original model of human capital investments after leaving school in which
individuals differ in their initial human capital obtained at school, their rates of return and …

Earnings instability and tenure

L Cappellari, M Leonardi - The Scandinavian Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We study the effect of tenure on earnings instability in Italy using the reforms of temporary
employment contracts, which affected the average tenure of workers differentially across …

Starting your career with a fixed-term job: stepping-stone or “dead end”?

D Pavlopoulos - Review of Social Economy, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
This paper uses panel data from the UK and Germany to investigate the difference in the
learning effect between workers who enter the labour market with a fixed term and a …

Can households and welfare states mitigate rising earnings instability?

C Bartels, T Bönke - Review of Income and Wealth, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We compare the evolution of earnings instability in Germany and the United Kingdom, two
countries which stand for different types of welfare states. Deploying data from the German …

Modeling income dynamics for public policy design: An application to income contingent student loans

T Higgins, M Sinning - Economics of Education Review, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper studies the importance of dynamic earnings modeling for the design of income
contingent student loans (ICLs). ICLs have been shown to be theoretically optimal in terms …