Peter Gottschalk

An International Comparison of Lifetime Labor Income Values and Inequality: A Bounds Approach ∗ (2008)

Deliberative democratic theory has become prominent in international relations. This thesis applies Dryzek?s theory of transnational discursive democracy in order to examine the role of global civil...

Audra J. Bowlus, Jean-marc Robin, Richard Blundell, Martin Browning, Peter Gottschalk, Robert Moffitt, ...

In this paper, we compare and contrast earnings inequality and mobility across the

Job Instability and Insecurity for Males and Females in the 1980's and 1990's (2007)

Are Earnings Inequality and Mobility Overstated? The Impact of Non-Classical Measurement Error (2006)

This paper has two objectives. The first is to measure changes in job instability over the 1980’s and 1990’s. We provide evidence on changes in short term job turnover using a previously

Sheldon. Danziger, Peter Gottschalk

Measures of inequality and mobility based on self-reported earnings reflect attributes of both the joint distribution of earnings across time and the joint distribution of measurement error and...

America unequal (2006)

Di¤erences in Wage Growth by Education Level Do Less–Educated Workers Gain Less from Work Experience? (2006)

Validation Study of Earnings Data in the SIPP--Do Older Workers Have Larger Measurement Error? (2005)

This paper revisits the old question of whether wage growth di¤ers by education level. Do more educated workers invest more than less educated workers in …rm speci…c, sector speci…c or general...

Changes in the Distribution of Long-Run Earnings and Retirement Incomes- Have Recent Cohorts Fallen Behind? (2005)

The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) is a potentially useful data set to study earnings and retirement dynamics of older workers. Respondents' self-reported work and earnings in the...

The Editors and members of the Editorial Board wish to thank the following who acted as referees for Oxford Economic Papers in 2004: (2005)

This study is motivated by the well-documented increase in wage inequality during the 1980s and the continued high levels of inequality during the 1990s. Specifically, we examine changes in the...

Alderman, Harold, Allen, Robert, Allingham, Michael, Altavilla, Carlo, Altenburg, Lutz, Anand, Paul, ...

The Editors and members of the Editorial Board wish to thank the following who acted as referees for Oxford Economic Papers in 2004: (2005)

Alderman, Harold, Allen, Robert, Allingham, Michael, Altavilla, Carlo, Altenburg, Lutz, Anand, Paul, ...

Downward Nominal Wage Flexibility: Real or Measurement Error? (2004)

Do Earnings Subsidies Affect Job Choice? The Impact of SSP Subsidies on Wage Growth (2004)

This paper presents a new method to correct for measurement error in wage data and applies this method to address an old question. How much downward wage flexibility is there in the U.S? We apply...

Can Work Alter Welfare Recipients' Beliefs about How They Will Fare in the Labor Market? (2003)

This paper asks whether wage subsidies encourages participants to move into jobs with greater wage growth. We provide an analytical framework that identifies the key causal links between earnings...

Changes in the Distribution of Long Run Earnings and Retirement Incomes--Have Recent Cohorts Fallen Behind? (2003)

Some public policies aimed at integrating welfare recipients into the world of work are predicated on the premise that getting welfare recipients to work will change their beliefs about how they will...

Gottschalk , Peter, Huynh, Minh

Wage Inequality, Earnings Inequality and Poverty in the U.S. Over the Last Quarter of the Twentieth Century (2003)

Gottschalk , Peter, Danziger, Sheldon

This paper tracks distributional changes over the last quarter of the twentieth century. We focus on three conceptually distinct distributions: the distribution of wages, the distribution of annual...

Wage Trajectories of Workers in Poor Households (2003)

Connolly, Helen, Gottschalk , Peter, Newman , Katherine

Stepping-stone Jobs: Theory and Evidence (2001)

Is the Proportion of College Workers in 'Non-College' Jobs Increasing? (2001)

This paper explores the wage and job dynamics of less-skilled workers by estimating a structural model in which agents choose among jobs that differ in initial wage and wage growth. The model also...

Gottschalk, Peter, Hansen, Michael

This paper explores the claim that college educated workers are increasingly likely to be in "non-college" occupations. We provide a conceptual framework which gives analytical content to the...

Wage Mobility within and between Jobs (2001)

On the Evaluation of Economic Mobility (2001)

This paper presents evidence on the extent of wage mobility both while working for the same firm and when moving to a new firm. We find that mean wage growth between jobs is large in comparison to...

Gottschalk, Peter, Spolaore, Enrico

This paper presents a framework for the evaluation and measurement of reversal and origin independence as separate aspects of economic mobility. We show how that evaluation depends on aversion to...

Income Mobility and Exits from Poverty of American Children, 1970-1992 (2001)

Gottschalk, Peter, Danziger, Sheldon

This paper asks two questions about child poverty dynamics. The first is whether long-run transitions out of poverty have changed. The second is whether the events associated with exits from poverty...

Returns to Tenure and Experience Revisited--Do Less Educated Workers Gain Less from Work Experience? (2000)

Changes in Job Stability and Job Security: A Collective Effort to Untangle (2000)

This paper explores whether within job and between job wage growth is lower for less-educated workers.While a simple model of heterogeneous learning ability predicts that individuals with low...

Annette Bernhardt, Peter Gottschalk, Susan Houseman, David Jaeger, Alec Levenson, David Neumark, ...

This is the introductory chapter to an edited volume tentatively titled On the Job: Is Long-Term Employment

Interim Report on the Impact of Increasing Earnings Inequality on Retirement Decisions and the Distribution of Social Security Benefits (1999)

Job Instability and Insecurity for Males and Females in the 1980s and 1990s (1999)

The focus of the overall project is on the distributional implications of changes in labor market outcomes on retirement labor force participation and income. Rising average real wages may well have...

Gottschalk, Peter, Moffitt, Robert

This paper has two objectives. The first is to provide evidence on changes in short term job turnover using a previously underutilized data source, the Survey of Income and Program Participation...

Have Recent College Graduates Experienced Worsening Wage and Job Distributions? (1998)

Gottschalk, Peter, Hansen , Michael

This article examines whether recent college graduates have fared as well as their predecessors. We examine changes in both the wage and occupational distributions. Specifically, we explore the claim...

On the Evaluation of Economic Mobility (1998)

Gottschalk , Peter, Spolaore, Enrico

This paper provides an explicit welfare basis for evaluating economic mobility. Our social welfare function can be seen as a natural dynamic extension of the static social welfare function presented...

Family Income Mobility -- How Much Is There and Has It Changed? (1997)

Gottschalk, Peter, Danziger, Sheldon

An Analysis of the Impact of Sample Attrition on the Second Generation of Respondents in the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1997)

Gottschalk, Peter, Fitzgerald , John, Moffitt , Robert

An Analysis of Sample Attrition in Panel Data: The Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1997)

Fitzgerald, John, Gottschalk, Peter, Moffitt, Robert

By 1989 the Michigan Panel Study on Income Dynamics (PSID) had experienced approximately 50 percent sample loss from cumulative attrition from its initial 1968 membership. We study the effect of this...

Changes in Home Production and Trends in Economic Inequality (1997)

Gottschalk, Peter, Mayer , Susan E.

Previous studies of trends in inequality have ignored changes in the distribution of home production. This paper asks whether including the value of home production affects the trend in inequality of...

The Impact of Changes in Public Employment on Low Wage Labor Markets (1997)

Cross-National Differences in the Rise in Earnings Inequality: Market and Institutional Factors (1997)

Gottschalk , Peter, Joyce, Mary

This paper uses data from the Luxembourg Income Study to explore the role of differences in supply shifts in explaining cross-national differences in the rise in earnings inequality. Changes in...

Cross National Comparisons of Levels and Trends in Inequality (1997)

Peter Gottschalk, Peter Gottschalk, Timothy M. Smeeding, Timothy M. Smeeding, Markus Jäntti, Stephen Jenkins, ...

This article reviews the evidence on cross-national comparisons of earnings and income inequality in OECD countries. It begins with a series of stylized facts which are then examined and supported by...

Hautveränderungen, Vitamin-D-Status und Reaktionen auf serielle Ultraviolett-Lichtbestrahlung bei insulinabhängigen Diabetikern im Kindes- und Jugendalter / (1996)

Is Earnings Inequality Also Rising in Other Industrialized Countries ?--the Role of Institutional Constraints (1995)

Jena, Univ., Diss., 1996.

Gottschalk, Peter, Joyce , Mary

The Loss in Efficiency from Using Grouped Data (1995)

Gottschalk, Peter, Lang, Kathleen M.

Trends in the Covariance Structure of Earnings in the U.S.: (1993)

Robert A. Moffitt, Peter Gottschalk, Charles Brown, James Heckman

Costas Meghir, Gary Solon, and the members of seminars and workshops at several universities for comments on this version of the paper, as well as Thomas MaCurdy for comments on an earlier version....

The changing contributions of men and women to the level and distribution of family income ; 1968 - 1988 (1991)

Cancian, Maria, Danziger, Sheldon, Gottschalk, Peter

New strategies in the synthesis of carbocyclic natural products / (1983)

Attempted synthesis of a member of the new class of biologically active marine compounds [microform] : acarnidines / (1978)

Typescript (photocopy).

Untersuchungen der Qualität von Lötverbindungen auf Leiterplatten mit durchgesteckten Bauelementanschlüssen in der Elektronik : Teil 1. Die mechanische Zuverlässigkeit von Lötverbindungen. (1974)

Thesis (B.S.) in Chemistry--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1978.

Methodik und klinische Ergebnisse der Disk-Elektrophorese / (1969)

Dresden, Techn. Univ., Fak. für Datenverarbeitung, Diss. A, 1974. (Nicht f. d. Austausch.).

Is Earnings Inequality Also Rising In Other Industrialized Countries?

Thesis (doctoral)--Eberhard-Karls-Universität zu Tübingen, 1969.

Welfare Dependence: Concepts, Measures, and Trends.

Gottschalk, Peter, Moffitt, Robert A

The Loss in Efficiency from Using Grouped Data

Peter Gottschalk, Kathleen M. Lang

We derive the efficiency loss from using grouped data to estimate coefficients of variables that vary across groups but not individuals within a group (e.g., state unemployment rates) when micro data...

Is the Proportion of College Workers in 'Non-College' Jobs Increasing?

Peter Gottschalk, Michael Hansen

This paper explores the claim that college educated workers are increasingly likely to be in "non-college" occupations. We provide a conceptual framework which gives analytical content to the...

Downward nominal wage flexibility: real or measurement error?

Wage Inequality, Earnings Inequality and Poverty in the U.S. Over the Last Quarter of the Twentieth Century

This paper presents a new method to correct for measurement error in wage data and applies this method to address an old question. How much downward wage flexibility is there in the U.S? We apply...

Have Recent College Graduates Experienced Worsening Wage and Job Distributions?

This paper tracks distributional changes over the last quarter of the twentieth century. We focus on three conceptually distinct distributions: the distribution of wages, the distribution of annual...

Peter Gottschalk, Michael Hansen

This article examines whether recent college graduates have fared as well as their predecessors. We examine changes in both the wage and occupational distributions. Specifically, we explore the claim...

Stepping-stone Jobs: Theory and Evidence

Differences in Wage Growth by Education Level: Do Less Educated Workers Gain Less from Work Experience?

This paper explores the wage and job dynamics of less-skilled workers by estimating a structural model in which agents choose among jobs that differ in initial wage and wage growth. The model also...

Are Earnings Inequality and Mobility Overstated? The Impact of Non-Classical Measurement Error

This paper revisits the old question of whether wage growth differs by education level. The paper makes both a methodological and a substantive contribution by offering a new strategy for separately...

Differences in Wage Growth by Education Level: Do Less-Educated Workers Gain Less from Work Experience?

Measures of inequality and mobility based on self-reported earnings reflect attributes of both the joint distribution of earnings across time and the joint distribution of measurement error and...

Are Earnings Inequality and Mobility Overstated? The Impact of Non-Classical Measurement Error

This paper revisits the old question of whether wage growth differs by education level. Do more educated workers invest more than less educated workers in firm specific, sector specific or general...

The Growth of Earnings Instability in the U.S. Labor Market

Measures of inequality and mobility based on self-reported earnings reflect attributes of both the joint distribution of earnings across time and the joint distribution of measurement error and...

Changes in Inequality of Family Income in Seven Industrialized Countries.

macroeconomics, growth of earnings, labor market

AFDC Participation across Generations.

How the Rich Have Fared, 1973-87.

Danziger, Sheldon, Gottschalk, Peter, Smolensky, Eugene

Earnings Inequality, the Spatial Concentration of Poverty, and the Underclass.

Danziger, Sheldon, Gottschalk, Peter

Cross-National Comparisons of Earnings and Income Inequality

Peter Gottschalk, Timothy M. Smeeding

This article reviews the evidence on cross-national comparisons of earnings and income inequality in OECD countries. It begins with a series of stylized facts which are then examined and supported by...

Trends in the Transitory Variance of Earnings in the United States

Robert A. Moffitt, Peter Gottschalk

We decompose the rise in cross-sectional variance of male annual earnings in the United States from 1969 to 1996 into permanent and transitory components. We find that the variance of permanent...

An Analysis of Sample Attrition in Panel Data: The Michigan Panel Study of income Dynamics

John Fitzgerald, Peter Gottschalk, Robert Moffitt

By 1989 the Michigan Panel Study on Income Dynamics (PSID) had experimented approximately 50 percent sample loss from cumulative attrition from its initial 1968 membership We study the effect of this...

Is the correlation in welfare participation across generations spurious?

INEQUALITY OF WAGE RATES, EARNINGS AND FAMILY INCOME IN THE UNITED STATES, 1975-2002

Wage Cuts as Investment in Future Wage Growth

This paper analyzes distributional changes over the last quarter of the twentieth century. We focus on four distinct distributions: the distribution of hourly wage rates, the distribution of annual...

The Growth of Earnings Instability in the U.S. Labor Market

Wage cuts are often presumed to reflect an adverse change in economic constraints. However, several theoretical models have shown they can be a form of investment in future wage growth. This paper...

Do Earnings Subsidies Affect Job Choice?

macroeconomics, growth of earnings, labor market

On the Evaluation of Economic Mobility

It is widely acknowledged that tax and transfer policies can affect employment. This paper explores a different potential impact of transfer policy by asking whether subsidies also affect job...

Peter Gottschalk, Enrico Spolare

On the Evaluation of Economic Mobility.

Gottschalk, Peter, Spolaore, Enricco

This paper presents a framework for the evaluation and measurement of "reversal" and "origin independence" as separate aspects of economic mobility. We show that evaluation depends on aversion to...

A random-effects logit model of work-welfare transitions

Enberg, John, Gottschalk, Peter, Wolf, Douglas

Do Rising Tides Lift All Boats? The Impact of Secular and Cyclical Changes on Poverty.

Danziger, Sheldon, Gottschalk, Peter

A Framework for Evaluating the Effects of Economic Growth and Transfers on Poverty.

Gottschalk, Peter, Danziger, Sheldon

Inequality, Income Growth, and Mobility: The Basic Facts.

Downward Nominal Wage Flexibility: Real or Measurement Error?

This essay brings together the factual material on changes in the distribution of labor market income that any of the theories addressed in the other papers in this symposium must address. The broad...

Empirical evidence on income inequality in industrialized countries

This paper presents a new method to correct for measurement error in wage data and applies this method to address an old question. How much downward wage flexibility is there in the U.S? We apply...

Gottschalk, Peter, Smeeding, Timothy M., A.B. Atkinson, F. Bourguignon

This chapter reviews the evidence on cross-national comparisons of annual disposable income inequality in over 20 wealthy nations. We begin by reviewing a number of conceptual and measurement issues...

The Loss in Efficiency from Using Grouped Data to Estimate Coefficients of Group Level Variables.

Lang, Kathleen M, Gottschalk, Peter

We derive the efficiency loss from using grouped data to estimate coefficients of variables that vary across groups but not individuals within a group (e.g., state unemployment rates) when micro data...

The Anatomy of Racial Inequality by Glenn Loury Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002

Downward Nominal Wage Flexibility: Real or Measurement Error?

Wage Trajectories of Workers in Poor Households

This paper presents a new method to correct for measurement error in wage data and applies this method to address an old question. How much downward wage flexibility is there in the U.S? We apply...

Helen Connolly, Peter Gottschalk, Katherine Newman

Wage mobility, low wage labor markets

Wage Cuts as Investment in Future Wage Growth: Some Evidence

Do Earnings Subsidies Affect Job Choice? The Impact of SSP Subsidies on Wage Growth

Wage cuts are often presumed to reflect an adverse change in economic constraints. However, several theoretical models have shown they can be a form of investment in future wage growth. This paper...

Wage Mobility within and between Jobs

This paper asks whether wage subsidies encourages participants to move into jobs with greater wage growth. We provide an analytical framework that identifies the key causal links between earnings...

On the Evaluation of Economic Mobility

This paper presents evidence on the extent of wage mobility both while working for the same firm and when moving to a new firm. We find that mean wage growth between jobs is large in comparison to...

Peter Gottschalk, Enrico Spolaore

This paper presents a framework for the evaluation and measurement of reversal and origin independence as separate aspects of economic mobility. We show how that evaluation depends on aversion to...

Trends in the Variances of Permanent and Transitory Earnings in the U.S. and Their Relation to Earnings Mobility

Robert A. Moffitt, Peter Gottschalk

We use the Michigan Panel Data Study on Income Dynamics to decompose the well-known rise in cross-sectional variance of individual male earnings in the U.S. into permanent and transitory components....

Income Mobility and Exits from Poverty of American Children, 1970-1992

Job Instability and Insecurity for Males and Females in the 1980s and 1990s

This paper asks two questions about child poverty dynamics. The first is whether long-run transitions out of poverty have changed. The second is whether the events associated with exits from poverty...

On the Evaluation of Economic Mobility

This paper has two objectives. The first is to provide evidence on changes in short term job turnover using a previously underutilized data source, the Survey of Income and Program Participation...

Peter Gottschalk, Enrico Spolaore

This paper provides an explicit welfare basis for evaluating economic mobility. Our social welfare function can be seen as a natural dynamic extension of the static social welfare function presented...

An Analysis of the Impact of Sample Attrition on the Second Generation of Respondents in the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Peter Gottschalk, John Fitzgerald, Robert Moffitt

Family Income Mobility -- How Much Is There and Has It Changed?

The Impact of Changes in Public Employment on Low Wage Labor Markets

An Analysis of Sample Attrition in Panel Data: The Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics

John Fitzgerald, Peter Gottschalk, Robert Moffitt

By 1989 the Michigan Panel Study on Income Dynamics (PSID) had experienced approximately 50 percent sample loss from cumulative attrition from its initial 1968 membership. We study the effect of this...

Changes in Home Production and Trends in Economic Inequality

Peter Gottschalk, Susan E. Mayer

Previous studies of trends in inequality have ignored changes in the distribution of home production. This paper asks whether including the value of home production affects the trend in inequality of...

Cross-National Differences in the Rise in Earnings Inequality: Market and Institutional Factors

Is Earnings Inequality Also Rising in Other Industrialized Countries? -- the Role of Institutional Constraints

This paper uses data from the Luxembourg Income Study to explore the role of differences in supply shifts in explaining cross-national differences in the rise in earnings inequality. Changes in...

The Impact Of Technological Change, Deindustrialization, And Internationalization Of Trade On Earnings Inequality and International Perspective

Earnings Distribution, Cross-national Comparisons

Can Work Alter Welfare Recipients' Beliefs about How They Will Fare in the Labor Market?

Is The Correlation In Welfare Participation Across Generations Spurious?

Some public policies aimed at integrating welfare recipients into the world of work are predicated on the premise that getting welfare recipients to work will change their beliefs about how they will...

Cross-National Differences In The Rise In Earnings Inequality: Market And Institutional Factors

An Error Components Model of the Impact of Plant Closing on Earnings.

This paper uses data from the Luxembourg Income Study to explore the role of differences in supply shifts in explaining cross-national differences in the rise in earnings inequality. Changes in...

Berry, Steve, Gottschalk, Peter, Wissoker, Doug

Downward Nominal-Wage Flexibility: Real or Measurement Error?

Changes in the Distribution of Long-Run Earnings and Retirement Incomes- Have Recent Cohorts Fallen Behind?

This paper presents a new method to correct for measurement error in wage data and applies this method to address an old question: How much downward wage flexibility is there in the United States? We...

Validation Study Of Earnings Data in the SIPP-- Do Older Workers Have Larger Measurement Error?

This study is motivated by the well-documented increase in wage inequality during the 1980s and the continued high levels of inequality during the 1990s. Specifically, we examine changes in the...

An Analysis of Sample Attrition in Panel Data: The Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics

The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) is a potentially useful data set to study earnings and retirement dynamics of older workers. Respondents’ self-reported work and earnings in...

John Fitzgerald, Peter Gottschalk, Robert Moffitt

By 1989 the Michigan Panel Study on Income Dynamics (PSID) had experienced approximately 50 percent sample loss from cumulative attrition from its initial 1968 membership. We study the effect of this...

Is the Proportion of College Workers in Noncollege Jobs Increasing?

Peter Gottschalk, Michael Hansen

This article explores the claim that college-educated workers are increasingly likely to be in "noncollege" occupations. We provide a conceptual framework that gives analytical content to the...

Changes in Job Instability and Insecurity Using Monthly Survey Data.

Gottschalk, Peter, Moffitt, Robert

This article provides evidence on changes in short-term job instability and insecurity using the Survey of Income and Program Participation. Monthly measures from this data set are contrasted with...

The Effect of Cohort Composition on Human Capital Accumulation across Generations.

Connelly, Rachel, Gottschalk, Peter

This article develops analytic links between cohort composition and human capital accumulation across generations. By focusing on cohort composition rather than cohort size, it offers new links...

The Impact of Taxes and Transfers on Job Search.

Involuntary Terminations, Unemployment, and Job Matching: A Test of Job Search Theory.

This article develops a framework for analyzing the impact of taxes and transfers on the length of time a person waits to accept a job while receiving transfer payments. It considers the impact of...

Gottschalk, Peter, Maloney, Tim

Earnings Inequality among Males in the United States: Trends and the Effect of Labor Force Growth.

Dooley, Martin D, Gottschalk, Peter

Trends in the Transitory Variance of Male Earnings in the U.S., 1970-2004

Robert Moffitt, Peter Gottschalk

We estimate the trend in the transitory variance of male earnings in the U.S. using the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1970 to 2004. Using both an error components model as well as...

Trends in the Transitory Variance of Male Earnings in the U.S., 1991-2003: Preliminary Evidence from LEHD data

Peter Gottschalk, Erika McEntarfer, Robert Moffitt

We estimate the trend in the transitory variance of male earnings in the U.S. from 1991 to 2005 using an administrative data set of Unemployment Insurance wage reports, the Longitudinal...

Wage Mobility within and between Jobs

Sample Attrition in Panel Data: The Role of Selection on Observables

This paper presents evidence on the extent of wage mobility both while working for the same firm and when moving to a new firm. We find that mean wage growth between jobs is large in comparison to...

John Fitzgerald, Peter Gottschalk, Robert Moffit

Changing Patterns in the Distribution of Economic Welfare

Gottschalk,Peter, Gustafsson,Bjorn A., Palmer,Edward E.

This book examines the income distributional experience of fifteen developed economies - representing a wide range of social and economic strategies - over the past two decades. Experts from each of...

The Rising Instability of U.S. Earnings