Estimates of Year-to-Year Volatility in Earnings and in Household Incomes from Administrative, Survey, and Matched Data

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作者
Dahl, Molly [1 ]
De Leire, Thomas [2 ,3 ,4 ]
Schwabish, Jonathan A. [1 ]
机构
[1] Congress Budget Off, Washington, DC 20515 USA
[2] Univ Wisconsin Madison, La Follette Sch Publ Affairs, Madison, WI USA
[3] Univ Wisconsin Madison, Dept Populat Hlth Sci, Madison, WI USA
[4] NBER, Cambridge, MA USA
关键词
CURRENT POPULATION SURVEY; UNITED-STATES; MEASUREMENT ERROR; INEQUALITY; TRENDS; INSTABILITY; WAGES; MALES; BIAS;
D O I
10.1353/jhr.2011.0000
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
We document trends in the volatility in earnings and household incomes between 1985 and 2005 in three different data sources: administrative earnings records, the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) matched to administrative earnings records, and SIPP survey data. In all data sources, we find a substantial amount of year-to-year volatility in workers' earnings and household incomes. In the data sources that contain administrative earnings, we find that volatility has been roughly constant, and has even declined slightly, since the mid-1980s. These findings differ from what is found using survey data and what has been reported in previous studies.
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