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Earnings Dynamics and Inequality in EU, 1994-2001

SOEPpapers 184, 58 S.

Denisa Maria Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue

2009

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Abstract

This paper uses ECHP for 14 EU countries to explore the dynamic structure of individual earnings and the extent to which changes in cross-sectional earnings inequality reflect transitory or permanent components of individual lifecycle earnings variation. Increases in inequality reflect increases in permanent differentials in four countries and increases in both components in two. Decreases in inequality reflect decreases in transitory differentials in four countries, in permanent differentials in two and in both components in rest. In general, increases in inequality are accompanied by decreases in mobility, whereas only in three countries the increase in mobility is determined by the decrease in inequality.



JEL-Classification: C23;D31;J31;J60
Keywords: Panel data, wage distribution, inequality, mobility
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http://hdl.handle.net/10419/150731

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