• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: The Age Profile of Mobility Measures: An Application to Earnings in West Germany
  • Contributor: Trede, Mark M.
  • Published: John Wiley & Sons, 1998
  • Published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 13 (1998) 4, Seite 397-409
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 0883-7252; 1099-1255
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  • Description: This paper develops a technique for estimating age-profiles of earnings mobility using conditional kernel density estimation and establishes their statistical properties. Both pointwise and simultaneous confidence intervals are derived. The paper then examines the age-profile of short-run earnings mobility in Germany between 1983 and 1993 using the Socio-Economic Panel data. It turns out that earnings mobility is significantly higher for young people than for elder ones. Mobility declines rather rapidly until the age of thirty-five or so and remains constant thereafter. The shape of the profile does not change significantly during the observation period.