The Rising Instability of U.S. Earnings

By P. Gottschalk, Robert A. Moffitt. 2009

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Paychecks, Paydays, and the Online Platform Economy: Big Data on Income Volatility (2016, unknown): “Gottschalk and Moffitt (2009) document the rise in transitory changes or earnings instability between the 1970s and the 1990s.”
• Decomposing Trends in Income Volatility: The 'Wild Ride' at the Top and Bottom (2014, background): “…for the typical family in the United States has been on the rise since the early 1970s, with estimates ranging from 10% to a doubling (Dahl, DeLeire, and Schwabish 2011; Dynan, Elmendorf, and Sichel 2012; Gottschalk and Moffitt 2009; Gundersen and Ziliak 2003; Hacker and Jacobs 2008; Winship 2009).”
• The Economic Security Index: A New Measure for Research and Policy Analysis (2012, unknown): “10 See for recent work and detailed reviews of past work Nichols and Zimmerman, 2008; Nichols, 2008; Gottschalk and Moffitt, 2009; Dynan, Elmendorf, and Sichel, 2008; Hacker and Jacobs, 2008; Gorbachev, 2011.”
• Understanding Declining Fluidity in the U.S. Labor Market (2016, background): “More recent analyses show a large increase in about the late 1970s and early 1980s, followed by a long, stable period and possibly even by a reversal, before it rose again into the 2000s and particularly in the Great Recession (Gottschalk and Moffitt 2009; Shin and Solon 2011; Koo 2016).”
• Tenure, Experience, Human Capital, and Wages: A Tractable Equilibrium Search Model of Wage Dynamics (2014, background): “…statistical properties of individual earnings from a dynamic perspective (see Hall and Mishkin, 1982, MaCurdy, 1982, Abowd and Card, 1989, Topel and Ward, 1992, Gottschalk and Moffitt, 2009, Browning, Ejrnaes, and Alvarez, 2010, Meghir and Pistaferri, 2004, Guiso, Pistaferri, and Schivardi, 2005).”
• THE PERSISTENCE OF POVERTY IN THE CONTEXT OF FINANCIAL INSTABILITY: A BEHAVIORAL PERSPECTIVE (2015, background): “Much of this income instability arises from volatility in earnings (with the empirical literature traditionally focused on patterns in male earnings; Cellini, McKernan, & Ratcliffe, 2008; Dahl, DeLeire, & Schwabish, 2011; Gottchalk & Moffitt, 2009; Nichols, 2008; Shin & Solon, 2011).”
• Schedule flexibility in hourly jobs: unanticipated consequences and promising directions (2012, result): “For example, recent analyses of national data suggest that within-job fluctuations in earnings have grown across several industrial sectors (Gottschalk & Moffitt, 2009).”
• Rising Inequality: Transitory or Persistent? New Evidence from a Panel of U.S. Tax Returns (2013, methodology): “Gottschalk and Moffitt (2009) use a simple nonparametric method and provide only suggestive evidence of an increase in the transitory variance starting in the mid-1980s, without conducting a full analysis.”