Earnings Inequality and Mobility Trends in the United States: Nationally Representative Estimates from Longitudinally Linked Employer-Employee Data
Earnings Inequality and Mobility Trends in the United States: Nationally Representative Estimates from Longitudinally Linked Employer-Employee Data
Abowd, John M.; McKinney, Kevin L.; Zhao, Nellie
Using earnings data from the U.S. Census Bureau, this paper analyzes the role of the employer in explaining
the rise in earnings inequality in the United States. We first establish a consistent frame of analysis appropriate
for administrative data used to study earnings inequality. We show that the trends in earnings inequality in the