Trends in the Transitory Variance of Male Earnings in the U.S., 1970-2004

Robert A. Moffitt, Peter Gottschalk

NBER Working Paper No. 16833
Issued in February 2011

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The authors would like to thank the participants at many seminars and conferences for comments, Joe Tracy and John Abowd for discussant comments, and Tom DeLeire and Gary Solon for helpful conversations. Outstanding research assistance was provided by Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Kai Liu, Shannon Phillips, and Sisi Zhang. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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