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Author: Solon, Gary
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1. Ashenfelter, Orley
Solon, Gary
Longitudinal Labor Market Data: Sources, Uses, and Limitations
Report, Washington DC: Assessment of Labor Force Measurements for Policy Formulation, National Council on Employment Policy, 1982
Cohort(s): NLS General
Publisher: Author
Keyword(s): Longitudinal Surveys; Research Methodology

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This study investigates the major sources of longitudinal data and their relative merits. This type of data has proven especially useful for three types of research: measurement and analysis of changes in individuals' status over time; analysis of intertemporal relationships; and analysis that must control for unobserved variables. These data have enabled other areas of research to be developed--which otherwise would have gone unnoticed. In addition, longitudinal data have increased research findings of previously unstable analytical assumptions.
Bibliography Citation
Ashenfelter, Orley and Gary Solon. "Longitudinal Labor Market Data: Sources, Uses, and Limitations." Report, Washington DC: Assessment of Labor Force Measurements for Policy Formulation, National Council on Employment Policy, 1982.
2. Shin, Donggyun
Solon, Gary
New Evidence on Real Wage Cyclicality within Employer-Employee Matches
NBER Working Papers No. w12262, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2006.
Also: http://www.nber.org/papers/w12262.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Keyword(s): Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Wage Dynamics; Wages

In the most thorough study to date on wage cyclicality among job stayers, Devereux's (2001) analysis of men in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics produced two puzzling findings: (1) the real wages of salaried workers are noncyclical, and (2) wage cyclicality among hourly workers differs between two alternative wage measures. We examine these puzzles with additional evidence from other sources. Devereux's finding of noncyclical real wages among salaried job stayers is not replicated in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data. The NLSY data, however, do corroborate his finding of a discrepancy for hourly workers between the cyclicality of the two alternative wage measures. Evidence from the PSID Validation Study contradicts Devereux's conjecture that the discrepancy might be due to a procyclical bias from measurement error in average hourly earnings. Evidence from the Bureau of Labor Statistics establishment survey supports his hypothesis that overtime work accounts for part (but not all) of the discrepancy. We conclude that job stayers' real average hourly earnings are substantially procyclical and that an important portion of that procyclicality probably is due to compensation beyond base wages.
Bibliography Citation
Shin, Donggyun and Gary Solon. "New Evidence on Real Wage Cyclicality within Employer-Employee Matches." NBER Working Papers No. w12262, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2006.
3. Shin, Donggyun
Solon, Gary
New Evidence on Real Wage Cyclicality within Employer-Employee Matches
Scottish Journal of Political Economy 54,5 (November 2007): 648-660.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9485.2007.00434.x/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Employment; Income Distribution; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Unemployment; Wage Differentials; Wage Equations; Wage Levels; Wages

In the most thorough study to date on wage cyclicality among job stayers, Devereux's (2001) analysis of men in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) produced two puzzling findings: (1) the real wages of salaried workers are noncyclical, and (2) wage cyclicality among hourly workers differs between two alternative wage measures. We examine these puzzles with additional evidence from other sources. Devereux's finding of noncyclical real wages among salaried job stayers is not replicated in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) data. The NLSY data, however, do corroborate his finding of a discrepancy for hourly workers between the cyclicality of the two alternative wage measures. Evidence from the PSID Validation Study contradicts Devereux's conjecture that the discrepancy might be due to a procyclical bias from measurement error in average hourly earnings. Evidence from the Bureau of Labor Statistics establishment survey supports his hypothesis that overtime work accounts for part (but not all) of the discrepancy. We conclude that job stayers' real average hourly earnings are substantially procyclical and that an important portion of that procyclicality probably is due to compensation beyond base wages.
Bibliography Citation
Shin, Donggyun and Gary Solon. "New Evidence on Real Wage Cyclicality within Employer-Employee Matches." Scottish Journal of Political Economy 54,5 (November 2007): 648-660.