TY  - JOUR
AU  - Solon,Gary
TI  - Bias in Longitudinal Estimation of Wage Gaps
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Technical Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 58
PY  - 1986
Y2  - June 1986
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/t0058
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/t0058.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Gary Solon
Department of Economics
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1038
Tel: 517/353-9933
Fax: 517/432-1068
E-Mail: solon@msu.edu
AB  - Cross-sectional regression analyses of wage gaps may be biased by omission of unobserved worker characteristics. Recent studies therefore have used longitudinal data to "difference out" the effects of such variables. This paper. however. shows that self-selection of job changers may cause longitudinal estimation of wage gaps to be inconsistent.
ER  -