Showing how to identify models of earnings and employment dynamics from subjective expectations data, from Manuel Arellano, Orazio Attanasio, Margherita Borella, @mdenardi.bsky.social, and Gonzalo Paz-Pardo www.nber.org/papers/w35027
Bottom line: high observed earnings persistence does not necessarily mean highly persistent of individual-level productivity shocks. A large part reflects heterogeneity and employer transitions.
Over our lives, we face many risks and choices. Read new working paper from @mdenardi.bsky.social, @johanatch.bsky.social, Borella, & Yang for a life-cycle model w/ single and married individuals jointly choosing labor supply and savings from labor market entry until death
https://bit.ly/4anebZ5
Over our lives, we face many risks and choices. Read new working paper from @mdenardi.bsky.social, @johanatch.bsky.social, Borella, & Yang for a life-cycle model w/ single and married individuals jointly choosing labor supply and savings from labor market entry until death . https://bit.ly/4anebZ5
How expectations shape labor market decisions:
Subjective Earnings and Employment Dynamics by Manuel Arellano, Orazio Attanasio, Margherita Borella, @mdenardi.bsky.social & Gonzalo Paz-Pardo
www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...
Reduced-form estimates can overstate persistence and volatility because they load on job transitions and sorting. Once we account for heterogeneity, volatility falls sharply and becomes much flatter across the earnings distribution.