An empirical investigation of labor income processes

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 58-79

  Guvenen, Fatih ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous income profiles; Idiosyncratic income risk; Incomplete markets models; Random walk model

Indexed keywords

EID: 56949084755     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.red.2008.06.004     Document Type: Article

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