“Golden Ages”: A Tale of the Labor Markets in China and the United States

Hanming Fang and Xincheng Qiu

Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics, 2023, vol. 1, issue 4, 665 - 706

Abstract: The peak age of the earnings profile in China declined from 55 in the 1990s to 35 in the 2010s, while in the United States it remained steady at around 50. Motivated by this and other facts, we propose and empirically implement a decomposition framework to infer from repeated cross-sectional earnings data the experience, cohort, and time effects. We find that China experienced a considerably larger intercohort human capital growth and increase in human capital rental price, but lower life-cycle human capital accumulation, compared to the United States. We use the inferred components to revisit several applications in macroeconomics and labor economics.

Date: 2023
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