全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP1702 Business Cycles and Compositional Variation in US Unemployment

G2TT

来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP1702
	DP1702 Business Cycles and Compositional Variation in US Unemployment
	Jan C. van Ours; Jaap H Abbring; Gerard Van den Berg
发表日期	1997-10-31
出版年	1997
语种	英语
摘要	The ?fractal? nature of the rise in earnings dispersion is one of its key features and remains a puzzle. This paper offers a new perspective on the causes of changes in earnings dispersion, focusing on the role of labour reallocation. Once we drop the assumption that all firms pay a given worker the same, the allocation of workers to firms matters for the dispersion of earnings. This perspective highlights two new factors that can affect the dispersion of earnings: rates of job and worker reallocation, and the nature of the process allocating workers to jobs. We set out a framework capturing this idea and quantify the impact of reallocation on earnings dispersion, using a dataset which comprises almost the universe of workers and the universe of employers in Maryland. We show that these factors have potentially large effects in general on earnings dispersion. In the case of Maryland over the period 1985?94, the changing allocation of workers to jobs played a significant role in explaining movements in the dispersion of earnings.
关键词	Allocation of workers Earnings inequality Matched worker-firm panels Within-group inequality
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp1702
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/530845
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jan C. van Ours,Jaap H Abbring,Gerard Van den Berg. DP1702 Business Cycles and Compositional Variation in US Unemployment. 1997.