Earnings dynamics and inequality among men in Luxembourg, 1988 - 2004: Evidence from administrative data

Starting with the late 1980s and intensifying after early 1990s, Luxembourg evolved from an industrial economy to an economy dominated by the tertiary sector, which relies heavily on the cross-border workforce. This paper explored the implications of these labour market structural changes for the structure of earnings inequality and earnings mobility. Using an extraordinary longitudinal dataset drawn from administrative records on professional career, we decomposed Luxembourg's growth in earnings inequality into persistent and transitory components and explored the extent to which changes in c... Mehr ...