… lifetime earnings (LE) inequality in the United States by focusing on latent heterogeneity in
job-ladder … set of moments on job mobility and earnings growth across the LE distribution. We …

… analysis of lifetime earnings inequality. Our aim is to identify the heterogeneities in the ability
to accumulate human capital and climb the job ladder by investigating the career paths of …

… growth while heterogeneous human capital accumulation is … Workers are risk averse and
maximize their lifetime utility. To … in human capital accumulation, but roughly equal job ladder …

… flatten the job ladder and impact human capital accumulation, … risk and worker-firm
heterogeneity, in which human capital … that recessions amplify income inequality and tend to have …

… Using a human capital model with general and career … reconciling this but I show that a job
ladder may not be the only way … job ladder, focusing on observed heterogeneity in job ladder …

… , flatten the job ladder and impact human capital accumulation, … risk and worker-firm
heterogeneity, in which human capital … find that recessions amplify income inequality and tend to …

… flatten the job ladder and impact human capital accumulation, … risk and worker-firm
heterogeneity, in which human capital … that recessions amplify income inequality and tend to have …

… structure with ex-ante worker heterogeneity in order to analyze the determinants of lifetime
earnings inequality. To … of workers and firms, nor accumulation of human capital. Adding these …

… To overcome these limitations, we leverage the panel structure of our data to infer these
variables from later years. Finally, we harmonize the occupation codes to a 3-digit level across …

… human capital heterogeneity at the time of labor market entry is a less important source of
lifetime earnings inequality … We show that this structure, combined with measurement error in …