TY  - JOUR
AU  - Burkhauser,Richard V.
AU  - Holtz-Eakin,Douglas
AU  - Rhody,Stephen E.
TI  - Labor Earnings Mobility and Inequality in the United States and Germany During the Growth Years of the 1980s
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 5988
PY  - 1997
Y2  - April 1997
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5988
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5988.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Richard V. Burkhauser
Cornell University
Department of Policy Analysis & Management
259 MVR Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4401
Tel: 607/255-2097
Fax: 607/255-4071
E-Mail: rvb1@cornell.edu

Douglas Holtz-Eakin
American Action Forum
1401 New York Ave, NW
Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20005
E-Mail: dholtzeakin@americanactionforum.org
AB  - Recent years have witnessed increased interest in issues of inequality and mobility in the labor market.  Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the German Socio-Economic Panel, we compare the labor earnings mobility of prime age men and women in the United States and Germany during the growth years of the 1980s.  Despite major differences in labor market institutions we find very similar patterns in the two countries. Our formal models of labor earnings dynamics suggest a great deal of persistence in both countries.  In the United States this may derive from permanent individual-specific differences among men, while in Germany random shocks are  found to persist longer for men.  Women in Germany and the United States have similar earnings dynamics.
ER  -