Divergent Paths: Economic Mobility in the New American Labor Market. By Annette Bernhardt, Martina Morris, Mark S. Handcock, and Marc A. Scott. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001. Pp. x, 267. $32.50

William M. Boal

The Journal of Economic History, 2002, vol. 62, issue 3, 906-907

Abstract: Little mentioned in the huge literature on rising wage inequality in the United States is the distinction between permanent and transitory differences across individuals. Transitory differences can perhaps be cushioned by borrowing and saving, but permanent differences cannot, so we should care whether the large increase in measured inequality represents transitory or permanent components. Unfortunately, permanent and transitory components of wages cannot be separated using the cross-sectional data employed by most researchers.

Date: 2002
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