Job Ladders and Careers

Fatih Karahan, Brendan Moore and Serdar Ozkan

No 20191008, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: Workers in the United States experience vast differences in lifetime earnings. Individuals in the 90th percentile earn around seven times more than those in the 10th percentile, and those in the top percentile earn almost twenty times more. A large share of these differences arise over the course of people’s careers. What accounts for these vastly different outcomes in the labor market? Why do some individuals experience much steeper earnings profiles than others? Previous research has shown that the “job ladder”—in which workers obtain large pay increases when they switch to better jobs or when firms want to poach them—is important for wage growth. In this post, we investigate how job ladders differ across workers.

Keywords: inequality; job ladder; unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-10-08
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