Hours worked and the US distribution of real annual earnings 1976–2019

IF 2.3 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Applied Econometrics Pub Date : 2024-03-25 DOI:10.1002/jae.3039

Iván Fernández-Val, Aico van Vuuren, Francis Vella, Franco Peracchi

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Abstract

We examine the impact of annual hours worked on annual earnings by decomposing changes in the real annual earnings distribution into composition, structural, and hours effects. We do so via a nonseparable simultaneous model of hours, wages, and earnings. Using the Current Population Survey for the survey years 1976–2019, we find that changes in the female distribution of annual hours of work are important in explaining movements in inequality in female annual earnings. This captures the substantial changes in their employment behavior over this period. Movements in the male hours' distribution only affect the lower part of their earnings distribution and reflect the sensitivity of these workers' annual hours of work to cyclical factors.

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1976-2019 年工作时数与美国实际年收入分布

我们通过将实际年收入分布的变化分解为构成效应、结构效应和工时效应，来研究年工时对年收入的影响。我们通过工时、工资和收入的非可分同步模型来实现这一目的。利用 1976-2019 年的当前人口调查，我们发现女性年工时分布的变化对于解释女性年收入不平等的变化非常重要。这反映了这一时期女性就业行为的实质性变化。男性工时分布的变化只影响其收入分布的较低部分，反映了这些工人的年工时对周期性因素的敏感性。

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Journal of Applied Econometrics Multiple-

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3.70

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4.80%

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