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Title: Occupational Distance and Pairwise Earnings Correlation

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Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: This paper measures intertemporal earnings correlation across occupations in the U.S. using the Current Population Survey, 1971-2012. Then predictors of occupational earnings correlation are identified from among measures of occupational dissimilarity based on the O*Net database. Its findings measures and measures of earnings correlation, as well as distance measures with negative estimated effects on earning correlation. The explanatory power of distance measures for earnings correlations is weak, however, rejecting the simple theory of spatially dependent sectoral shifts among occupations.

Url: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~bvankamm/Files/Wage Correlation Paper 04112014.pdf

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Authors: Van Kammen, Ben

Publisher: Purdue University

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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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