Earnings volatility in America: Evidence from matched CPS

Labour Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 742-754

  Ziliak, James P ^a   Hardy, Bradley ^b   Bollinger, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earnings; Employment; Instability; Variance decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 81955160777     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2011.06.015     Document Type: Article

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