Export Earnings Instability: Price, Quantity, Supply, Demand?

1978 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Murray
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Instability

scholarly journals The Growth of Earnings Instability in the U.S. Labor Market

1994 ◽  
Vol 1994 (2) ◽  
pp. 217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Gottschalk ◽  
Robert Moffitt ◽  
Lawrence F. Katz ◽  
William T. Dickens
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Earnings Instability ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals The Impact of Macroeconomic Conditions on the Instability and Long-Run Inequality of Workers’ Earnings in Canada

2005 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles M. Beach ◽  
Ross Finnie ◽  
David Gray
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Unemployment Rate ◽  
Earnings Inequality ◽  
Gdp Growth ◽  
Macroeconomic Conditions ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Gdp Growth Rate ◽  
Earnings Instability ◽  
Rate Effects ◽  
The Impact

This paper examines the variability of workers’ earnings in Canada over the period 1982‑1997. Using a large panel of tax file data, we decompose total variation in earnings across workers and time into a long-run inequality component between workers and an average earnings instability component over time for workers. We find an increase in earnings variability between 1982‑89 and 1990‑97 that is largely confined to men and largely driven by widening long-run earnings inequality. Second, the pattern of unemployment rate and GDP growth rate effects on these variance components is not consistent with conventional explanations and is suggestive of an alternative paradigm of how economic growth over this period widens long-run earnings inequality. Third, when unemployment rate and GDP growth rate effects are considered jointly, macroeconomic improvement is found to reduce the overall variability of earnings as the reduction in earnings instability outweighs the widening of long-run earnings inequality.

Long-Run Earnings Inequality and Earnings Instability among Canadian Men Revisited, 1985-2005

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuri Ostrovsky
Keyword(s):  
Recent Literature ◽  
Components Of Variance ◽  
Earnings Dynamics ◽  
Administrative Dataset ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Earnings Instability ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Censored Observations ◽  
Flexible Models ◽  
Recession Period

Abstract I consider two flexible models of earnings dynamics suggested in the recent literature and alternative approaches to the treatment of left-censored observations to examine trends in the permanent and transitory variances of earnings of Canadian male workers from 1985 to 2005. I find that both permanent and transitory variances were higher in the 2000s than in the late 1980s or 1990s. In contrast to the late 1980s and the recession period of the early 1990s, both components of variance grew at a similar pace during the post-recession period, and the share of each component in the total variance remained fairly stable. The results are robust to the choice of a model. The study is based on a large sample from a uniquely rich longitudinal administrative dataset.

Changes in Earnings Instability and Job Loss

ILR Review ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Huff Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Job Loss ◽  
Displaced Workers ◽  
Earnings Volatility ◽  
Earnings Instability ◽  
Previous Decade

This paper examines the contribution of job loss or displacement to increasing male earnings instability between 1970 and 1991. Earnings instability increased among both displaced and not-displaced men, so changes associated with job loss cannot fully explain rising instability. Changes in the incidence and consequences of job loss did, however, add substantially to growing earnings instability and to the overall variance of earnings. There is evidence that displacement substantially raised earnings volatility for several years after job loss. That effect, combined with increased numbers of recently displaced workers in the 1980s relative to the previous decade, contributed to rising overall earnings instability.

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