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- ISBN 9783718652143
- Weight: 226g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1992
- Publisher: Harwood-Academic Publishers
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
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There is a great deal of interest in how individual earnings change over time and the degree of mobility. Do people keep the same place on the earnings scale, or is there a great deal of fluidity? In recent years new sources of data have become available, particularly from panel surveys. This book reviews the literature on earnings mobility, both theoretical and empirical. The first section provides an analytical framework to put different studies in perspective and considers the measurement of mobility, followed by a description of the range of empirical evidence available in the US, UK, France, Canada, Germany and other countries. The final part examines the results which have been reached regarding the degree of mobility and the econometric modelling of earnings changes over time, ending with a summary of the main conclusions and the scope for future research.
A.B. Atkinson is a member of the Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines at LSE and Professor of Political Economy (from October 1992) at the University of Cambridge.
F. Bourguignon is Associate Director of DETLA, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Ecole Normale Supérieure and Professor of Economics at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
C. Morrison is Professor of Economics at the University of Paris I and Heade of Programme at the OECD Development Centre.
