ABSTRACT Labor Force States and flows between are useful tools to model individual
dynamics in the labor market. This chapter reviews recent literature uncovering substantial …

Using data from the Australian Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia
(HILDA) Survey (2001–2020), we examine how combined patterns of non-standard …

Recent empirical studies document that the distribution of earnings changes displays
substantial deviations from lognormality: in particular, earnings changes are negatively …

We investigate different wage growth rates over the life cycle for poor and rich workers, and
how they relate to the frequency and quality of job-to-job transitions. Using the universe of …

This paper develops a macroeconomic model that combines an incomplete-markets
overlapping-generations economy with a job ladder featuring sequential wage bargaining …

We develop a methodology to consistently estimate employer-to-employer (EE) mobility
toward higher paying jobs based on publicly available microdata from the Current …

This paper is the first to compute lifetime earnings (LTE) in France for a large number of
cohorts that entered the labour market between 1967 and 1987. We compare our results …

Household size is countercyclical, mainly because of young people moving into or delaying
departure from the parental home. Those living in older households earn less and have …

We document substantial differences between individuals in cumulative hours worked over
a lifetime. We assess the extent to which these differences contribute to inequality in lifetime …

This thesis studies a range of issues in spatial and international economics. The first two
chapters focus on spatial earnings inequality across cities; the last chapter studies …