Labor Earnings Mobility and Inequality in the United States and Germany during the Growth Years of the 1980s
利用美国和德国的面板数据，比较1980年代增长期两国主要劳动年龄男女的收入流动性，发现尽管制度差异大，但收入动态模式相似，且两国均存在高度持续性。
Recent years have witnessed increased interest in issues of inequality and mobility in the labor market. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the German Socio-Economic Panel, we compare the labor earnings mobility of prime age men and women in the United States and Germany during the growth years of the 1980s. Despite major differences in labor market institutions we find very similar patterns in the two countries. Our formal models of labor earnings dynamics suggest a great deal of persistence in both countries. In the United States this may derive from permanent individual-specific differences among men, while in Germany random shocks are found to persist longer for men. Women in Germany and the United States have similar earnings dynamics.