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Title: Earnings Mobility of Primary Earners
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Gottschalk, Peter |
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Earnings Mobility of Primary Earners Final Report, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 1980 Cohort(s): Mature Women, NLSY79, Older Men, Young Men, Young Women Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor Keyword(s): Earnings; Educational Attainment; Employment; Life Cycle Research; Mobility; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Underemployment; Work History Data from five cohorts of the NLS were used to determine the degree of earnings mobility in the lower tail of the earnings distribution. The study documents that a substantial proportion of the low earnings population was immobile. Two major policy conclusions result from this study. First, there is a demonstrated need for programs for the chronically underemployed. Earnings poverty is more than a transitory or life-cycle phenomenon. Likewise, it is a problem that affects more people than the stereotypical teenager, ex-offender or welfare mother. Second, programs should be targeted at people with histories of low earnings over more than one year. However, if long work histories are not available it is better to target programs on people with recent low earnings than to use other attributes such as race, region or educational attainment as proxies to identify the long-term earnings poor. |
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Gottschalk, Peter. "Earnings Mobility of Primary Earners." Final Report, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 1980. |