Earnings Inequality and Mobility in the United States: Evidence from Social Security Data Since 1937

By W. Kopczuk, Emmanuel Saez, Jae Song. 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Inequality, the Great Recession, and Slow Recovery (2014, positive): “Kopczuk et al. (2010) report similar results.”
Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Brazil (2017, methodology): “We estimate the model on Brazilian matched employer-employee data from 1996-2000 and use it to conduct a counterfactual policy experiment, simulating the equilibrium 3To put Brazil’s 26 log points decrease in the variance of log earnings into perspective, the same measure for adult male workers in t”
A Nonparametric Analysis of Black-White Differences in Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States (2010, neutral): “Similarly, one could extend the analysis of Kopczuk, Saez, and Song (2010), who estimated rates of intragenerational upward mobility by using the probability of an individual moving into the top quintile from the bottom two quintiles by adding covariates or comparing differ- ences by industry or…”
Wage inequality, technology and trade: 21st century evidence (2011, background): “There does not appear to be a large change in mobility around within workers’ position in the wage distribution however (Wojciech, Emmanuel Saez and Jae Song, 2010).”
Lifetime Earnings Inequality in Germany (2014, background): “Closest to the current paper is probably the article by Kopczuk et al. (2010) about earnings inequality in the United States.”
The Nature of Countercyclical Income Risk (2014, methodology): “1Kopczuk et al. (2010) also employ an SSA dataset with uncapped earnings (after 1978), whereas Haider and Solon (2006), Schulhofer-Wohl (2011), Bonhomme and Hospido (2012, Spain), and Bönke et al.”
Did Inequality Cause the U.S. Financial Crisis (2014, positive): “Kopczuk et al. (2010), using Social Security Administration (SSA) earnings data, compare Gini coefficients based on annual earnings and 5-year to 20-year average earnings and conclude that “increases in annual earnings inequality are driven almost entirely by increases in permanent earnings…”
Labor Income Dynamics and the Insurance from Taxes, Transfers, and the Family (2014, result): “3 See also Kopczuk et al. (2010).”
The Dynamics of Inequality (2016, neutral): “(32)Linetsky (2005) derives a related result for the special case with a reflecting barrier, μ < 0 and δ = 0.”